Q: Good afternoon, sir. My question is that, given that the administration’s primary focus is on the Pacific theater, how has all of the issues popping up in the world today, Russia, Iraq, Africa, the rest of the theaters pretty much affected that current mission? And how do you foresee that affecting the mission in the future? <\/p>\n
SEC. HAGEL: Thank you. That’s a — go ahead, sit down — that’s a question I got often when I was in India and Australia. And the trip I just came from was my sixth trip to the Asia Pacific area in the last year-and-a-half. I’ve got four planned this calendar year. And so I get that question all the time. It’s a legitimate question for the very reasons you asked. <\/p>\n
The world is exploding all over.<\/strong> And so is the United States going to continue to have the resources, the capabilities, the leadership, the bandwidth to continue with the rebalance toward the Asia Pacific? And the answer is yes.<\/p>\n[…]<\/p>\n
And I think, as what I did in taking questions yesterday on this, it is pretty clear on where we are today and what we have committed to do, we are continuing to do. Start with the fact that both Secretary Kerry and I, the secretary of state, secretary of defense, were just in that area for a few days. I’ve been there six times in the last year-and-a-half. Look at the new things we have done in the Asia Pacific, the new initiatives.<\/p>\n
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Now, that said, as I’ve said, with that rebalance, which will continue, and we are committed to do that, we’re not retreating from any other part of the world. Great powers can’t pick and choose which challenges and threats they’re going to deal with. There is no power on Earth like the United States of America.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I guess what all of that means is “When you wish upon a star Makes no difference who you are Anything your heart desires Will come to you. If your heart is in your dream No request is too extreme, When you wish upon a star As dreamers do. Fate is kind She brings to those who love
\nThe sweet fulfillment of Their secret longing”.<\/p>\n
But that “the world is exploding” line should show up in some campaign literature this season, wouldn’t you think? The world is exploding everywhere but in the Pacific, but guess where this administration’s focus is. But, if we wish real hard, all of the world’s problems will just disappear and maybe the Chinese will do us a solid and start some shit in the Pacific for us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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