We live in a world of absolute immediacy. It is an interconnected, combustible world, where technology and many … - Chuck Hagel

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Despite all that good news, there's plenty of horror stories being told. All of them are untrue, but they're being told all over America.

Chuck Hagel

We live in a world of absolute immediacy. It is an interconnected, combustible world, where technology and many other actions have given nonstate actors a reach, into countries and societies, for both good and evil, that we have never seen before. So it isn't a matter of just state versus state challenges or conflict. The bigger problem is nonstate actors.

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Assad must go. He's lost the legitimacy to govern.

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