Jim Webb: “what is the status of the AoA for Joint Fires Capabilities?”

I have been in a number of meetings where each of you took us to the woodshed about needing to try harder.

If the government is so repressive that it deliberately kills its own people--that is the standard where you say that government no longer has validity--then it does not matter how powerful that government is.

We look forward to the visit of President Thein Sein next week.

It is imperative that the United States policy be based on a clear set of principles that everyone here at home and in the region can understand.