Chuck Hagel actually said...

I've never thought engagement as weakness. I never thought it was surrender. I never thought it was appeasement.

Thank you, Senator. Let me first correct some of your interpretation of what the Global Zero report was and what it actually said.

I call it an illustration, Senator, because that is the term; it is used at the front end of the report.

As Senator Nunn said in his opening statement--and I have alluded generally to this--the mainstream thinking of most Presidents we have had ...