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Pletka, Danielle - Vice President
AFTERNOON. KP I GET EVERYBODY CAN I GET EVERYBODY TO SIT DOWN AND CREW QUIETLY? I THINK WE'RE GOING TO START HERE. GOOD AFTERNOON, EVERYBODY. I'M DANIELLE...
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Donnelly, Thomas - Director
THE SEQUESTRATION THAT PAUL RYAN TOLD US THIS WEEKEND IS GOING TO HAPPEN. I'LL GIVE YOU THE MIKE. >> WELL, IT'S A PREDICTION THAT AT THIS POINT SEEMS...
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Pletka, Danielle - Vice President
PRIORITIES. >> TOM I WANT TO PUSH YOU ON A QUESTION AND THEN GO TO FRED TO TALK ABOUT THE WARS THAT WE CAN FIGHT. PART OF THE PROBLEM IS THAT THE NOTION...
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| 00:10:51 |
Kagan, Frederick W. - Director
SURROUNDING DECISIONS. >> WE'VE BECOME VERY ACCUSTOMED TO THROWING NUMBERS OF TROOPS AROUND AND PEOPLE HAVE GOTTEN WAY TOO COMFORTABLE WITH PULLING ...
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| 00:16:11 |
Pletka, Danielle - Vice President
KNOW HOW TO DO THIS. >> I'D LIKE TO BRING IT BACK TO TOM. THE DEBATE WE HAVE GOING ON IN AFGHANISTAN IT'S NOT JUST A DEBATE ABOUT AFGHANISTAN. IT'S...
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| 00:17:50 |
Donnelly, Thomas - Director
CHALLENGE THAT FACES US IN ASIA. >> I'LL TRY TO BE BRIEF. THESE NEW CAPABLE CYBER OPERATIONS OR WHATEVER YOU WANT TO CALL THEM ARE CERTAINLY NEEDED...
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Kagan, Frederick W. - Director
TWO. >> I THINK IT'S INTERESTING TO LOOK BACK OVER THE LAST FOUR YEARS OUTSIDE OF IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN AND NOW AT IRAQ SINCE WE PULLED OUT OUR LAST...
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| 00:24:05 |
Pletka, Danielle - Vice President
QUESTION. THE BIG PROBLEM FOR MOST AMERICANS IS THEY LOOK AT -- OKAY, AFGHANISTAN, THAT'S ONE THING. MAYBE IRAQ ANOTHER THING. MALI MALI, COME ON....
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| 00:25:29 |
Kagan, Frederick W. - Director
OF ATTACKING US AND IN OUR HOMES AND WILL CONTINUE TO MAKE ATTEMPTS TO ATTACK US IN OUR HOMELAND. I'M NOT SUGGESTING THERE'S AN EASY SOLUTION AND I'M...
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| 00:26:44 |
Donnelly, Thomas - Director
INTERESTS. THE
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| 00:26:56 |
Pletka, Danielle - Vice President
IDEA DAMASCUS IS NOT. CAIRO IS NOT, BAGHDAD IS NOT. >> WE THINK THE WORLD IS MADE UP SOLELY OF AL QAEDA AND THE ISLAMIC WORLD. I WONDER IF YOU WOULD TALK...
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| 00:27:31 |
Auslin, Michael - Resident Scholar
TO UP TO A POINT. >> FIRST OF ALL, NOW YOU KNOW HOW ASIA FEELS IN THESE DISCUSSIONS. ALWAYS LAST AND THEN IT'S REAL QUICK. GET IT OVER AS SOON AS YOU...
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| 00:34:36 |
Pletka, Danielle - Vice President
CAPABLE. >> LET ME PUSH BACK AT YOU WITH THE FAVORED THEORY OF OFFSHORE BALANCING. THIS IS INCREASINGLY POPULAR AS A CONSTRUCT FOR AMERICAN NATIONAL...
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| 00:35:37 |
Auslin, Michael - Resident Scholar
ARE. OUR ASIAN ALLIES HAVE NOT FAILED TO THINK THIS THROUGH. EVERYTHING YOU SAID IS RIGHT. YOU HAVE TO HAVE SKIN IN THE GAME. I KNOW THAT'S A CLICHE....
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| 00:37:59 |
Pletka, Danielle - Vice President
A GRAY HOLE? NOT THAT MUCH BECAUSE IT'S THOUSANDS OF MILES OF WATER SPACE. >> THERE'S ANOTHER THING THAT YOU PROBABLY NOTICED WE DIDN'T BRING UP. IT...
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| 00:39:50 |
Kagan, Frederick W. - Director
IT. TOM MAYBE YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE CONTAINMENT. >> I WANT TO THROW IN A CONCEPT THAT'S UNDERSTAND US. WE'VE DECIDED THAT WHATEVER WE ALL AGREE...
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| 00:42:09 |
Donnelly, Thomas - Director
HE'S BEING ASKED TO RETIRE EARLY. WHILE HE'S IN COMMAND ARGUABLY HE'S BEEN LETTING OTHER PARTS OF HIS AREA OF OPERATIONS BE THE BE PAYERS FOR THAT. IT'S...
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| 00:43:26 |
Pletka, Danielle - Vice President
MILITARY CONTINGENCIES. >> IT'S INTERESTING TO ME THAT JOHN KERRY IN HIS HEARINGS LAST WEEK AND HIS PREPARED STATEMENT UNDERSCORED THE NOTION THAT THE...
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| 00:45:46 |
Donnelly, Thomas - Director
NOMINEES. I'M GOING TO SEE WHO GRABS THE MIKE FIRST. >> OKAY. LET'S JUST COMPARE SENATOR KERRY AND SENATOR HAGEL TO SENATOR -- THEN SENATOR HILLARY...
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| 00:46:32 |
Kagan, Frederick W. - Director
CAUSE IS THE PRESIDENT'S LACK OF INTEREST IN THESE ISSUES. >> I HAVE ANOTHER PET PHRASE. THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IS TRYING TO FOCUS ON BEING RESPONSIBLE...
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| 00:48:07 |
Auslin, Michael - Resident Scholar
IS EXPECTED TO BE PART OF AN ALLIANCE STRUCTURE IF THERE'S CONFLICT. ARE THERE IMPLICATIONS FOR US? >> ON THE NOMINATIONS, IF THE REBALANCE OF THE ADMINISTRATION...
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| 00:50:44 |
Donnelly, Thomas - Director
AND >> REALLY QUICKLY BECAUSE FRED'S COMMENTS REMINDED ME OF THE CONCLUDING REMARKS I WANTED TO MAKE IN MY OPENING STATEMENT BUT WAS TOO SLOW TO GET...
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| 00:52:30 |
Q & A
YOUR QUESTION JUST SO IT'S AUDIBLE FOR THE AUDIENCE AS WELL OUTSIDE. THIS GENTLEMAN OVER HERE AND THEN I SAW A HAND THERE. >> THIS QUESTION IS FOR MR....
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| 00:53:02 |
Pletka, Danielle - Vice President
THE CRITICISM OF -- THE CRITICISM OF THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION ON ITS ACTIONS IN A VARIETY OF THESE AL QAEDA, SOMALIA, WAS PERSUASIVE BUT WHAT'S THE RIGHT...
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| 00:53:15 |
Kagan, Frederick W. - Director
WELL, I DON'T HAVE A RIGHT ANSWER, AND THERE ISN'T A SINGLE RIGHT ANSWER FOR ANY OF THESE VARIOUS PLACES BUT I THINK THAT WE NEED TO GET BEYOND A VERY...
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| 00:55:35 |
Donnelly, Thomas - Director
CARTELS. ANYBODY HERE CAPABLE TO TALK ABOUT THAT? TOM? >> FIRST OF ALL, YOU KNOW, THAT HAS ALWAYS BEEN OTHER THAN ACTUAL THE PHYSICAL DEFENSE, THE CONTINENTAL...
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| 00:57:20 |
Pletka, Danielle - Vice President
A FAIRLY TRADITIONAL APPROACH THAT'S GOING TO BE, YOU KNOW, NO DOING THIS ON THE CHEEK. >> BUT PART OF THE PROBLEM -- PART OF THE PROBLEM AT THIS...
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| 00:59:35 |
Kagan, Frederick W. - Director
KNOW WHEN WE'VE WON? >> DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT. WE'RE IN NO DANGER OF WINNING ANYTIME SOON. THIS HAS BECOME A LIFT, IT'S A FAIR QUESTION. WHAT'S YOUR...
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| 01:00:59 |
Pletka, Danielle - Vice President
SO METROPOLITAN MORE THAT THAT IS THE CONUNDRUM THAT FACES US NOW. >> I DO THINK THERE'S AN ANSWER, THOUGH, THAT IF YOU LOOK BACK, WE WERE WINNING IN...
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| 01:02:11 |
Auslin, Michael - Resident Scholar
UNCONVENTIONAL. I DIDN'T THINK IT WOULD BE A WAR LIKE THE 1930s. I DIDN'T THINK IT WOULD BE, IN ESSENCE ESSENCE, A FULL-OUT WAR. FIRST OF ALL, WHAT I...
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| 01:04:55 |
Pletka, Danielle - Vice President
MORE? >> THE QUESTION IS ABOUT SYRIA AND WHAT THE UNITED STATES SHOULD DO. I DO HAVE TO DISAGREE. YOU SUGGESTED AT THE BEGINNING THAT SYRIA WAS ONE OF...
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| 01:08:38 |
Kagan, Frederick W. - Director
SOMETHING? ALL MY COLLEAGUES WANT TO ADD SOMETHING. >> LOOK, THIS IS ALSO A CASE WHERE WE'RE PAYING THE PRICE FOR HAVING PERSUADED OURSELVES THAT IRAQ...
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| 01:10:26 |
Donnelly, Thomas - Director
WHATSOEVER. >> JUST REALLY QUICKLY, I -- YOU HAVE TO OPEN UP THE ANDPPERTURE MORE. THIS IS IN A CONTEXT DEFINED BY U.S. WITHDRAWAL. IN 2008 THE U.S....
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| 01:12:18 |
Pletka, Danielle - Vice President
WHAT SHOULD OUR FOREIGN POLICY TOWARDS EGYPT BE HE IS ESPECIALLY OUR SECURITY ASSISTANCE. YOU KNOW, THIS IS ANOTHER AREA I THINK CONGRESS REALLY HAS...
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| 01:14:51 |
Kagan, Frederick W. - Director
HEAR. I DON'T KNOW WHETHER MY COLLEAGUES HAVE ANY OR WE CAN GO TO ANOTHER. >> AGREEING ENTIRELY WITH THAT. ON THE HILL WE GET CAUGHT UP IN THE FOCUS...
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| 01:17:14 |
Auslin, Michael - Resident Scholar
IT? >> THE QUESTION IS ABOUT INTELLIGENCE IN THE PIVOT AND WILL IT BE MORE STATE BASED RATHER THAN LOOKING AT NONSTATE ACTORS, IF THAT'S THE RIGHT THING....
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| 01:20:01 |
Pletka, Danielle - Vice President
THAT WE CAN LEVERAGE IN OTHER WAYS. >> I'M GOING TO WRAP THINGS UP HERE. LET ME THANK, FIRST OF ALL, MY COLLEAGUES FOR BEING HERE AND ALL OF YOU AND...
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