The President has said that we will not dictate to the Afghan people how to live or how to govern their own complex society.
Well, thank you, Mr. Chairman. And appreciate your bringing up cybersecurity in your initial remarks.
I think they are essential aspects of our foreign policy and our diplomacy.
What projects are we actually canceling, in terms of the President's dictates to no longer engage in nation-building?
I think it is a different fight, if you will, from 5 years ago.
A government that is capable is a government that is responsive to the needs that are identified by its citizens.
The long and short of it is, Afghanistan today, a planning can be held in any one of thousands of buildings.
Certainly, we have been very concerned about the--both the commercial hacking, the governmental hacking that has occurred by foreign nations...
Our failure to recognize that is profoundly offensive to them.
These kinds of, kind of, basic pieces have a huge impact on the retention of talent, and morale, and the capability of the Department.
I do not, sir. And I am not aware, during the preparation of this process, of any plans along those lines.