02/06/2012
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"For every slot that is given to one person, it is arguably taken away from someone else."
"In our current strategic environment, these commitments can affect force structure in the short-term but really not play out to our national advantage in the long-term."
"NATO expansion originally started out as being very much about creating a Europe that's whole and free."
"I would hope that we could proceed forward in a very careful way, in terms of making any more mandatory obligations as to where our military would be used."