09/07/2011
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"If we do things to undermine the alliance in what appears to be a gratuitous way without working with them, it undermines the strength of that alliance and plays right into Russia's hands."
"I feel very strongly that, as I think every member of this committee does, that the NATO alliance has served our country very well."
"We can't keep doing things the same way we have done them to date."
"The military has made clear to me, and we have had conversations about this, they will not follow an illegal order. They will not follow an order that would illegally help the president overturn the e..."