07/20/2009
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"I reiterate that this or any other carve-out strategy would be a strategic mistake."
"I think I am on record about as strongly as I can be about how important this region is to our country"
"I would only say, do you not think that our involvement, the United States, in oil and gas there could add transparency to the system?"
"Dr. Hicks, in a taped interview about the shift in strategy in January 2012, you maintain that DOD can still execute a two-war strategy."