Emphasizing the dangers of reducing military strength.
02/16/2011
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The policymakers who will follow us . . . will not have the same historical, personal and, indeed, emotional ties to Eur...
Senator Kaine will recall the reaction when we--when I shuttered Joint Forces Command in Norfolk.
Secretary Gates told President Bush that Guantanamo was a national security liability and advised him to close it down.
By continuing to repeat that the U.S. will not put boots on the ground, the President, in effect, traps himself.