Jim Webb: “Has your Service reviewed your European Command position to determine whether it should remain an O-10 position?”

The federal recognition process has been fraught with challenges that need to be addressed.

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.

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.

So if Tiananmen occurred today with the Chinese Government rolling out tanks and killing hundreds, if not thousands, of its own people, that it would also fit the Panetta rule.