Chuck Hagel: “I am a strong supporter of Israel. I have been. I will continue to be.”

Because I had the responsibility and I play my own game here. And that is because by law, I am the one official in government charged with certification with release of detainees. I take that responsibility very seriously.

It just feeds into all that instability, and unrest, and unpredictability, which makes a damn dangerous world.

I think that is really the essence of the ultimate objective we'd like to see in Syria.

There's a perception that it is the military's responsibility to fix the problem. Problems are not fixed by militaries.