If confirmed, working with the Secretary of State and other interagency counterparts, I would carefully consider any initiative that seeks to reduce tensions and facilitate a diplomatic solution to the current tensions.
Hagel supports initiatives aimed at reducing tensions in East Asia.
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I mean, not to capture him, but to get him back, and to do that, if it would have taken another course of action or if we would have taken another option, that would have put our men and women at risk.
Continuous piecemeal changes will only magnify uncertainty and doubts among our servicemembers about whether promised benefits will be there in the future.
In fact, the Pentagon has presented options to the President and while they are constantly reassessing those and offering new options.
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