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Foreign policy is all about a universe of bad decisions, imperfect decisions every situation is different. The dynamics, the atmospherics, the people, the pressures, the geopolitical realities shift.

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Chuck Hagel
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: October 4
Banker
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United States Secretary Of Defense
North Platte
Nebraska
Charles Timothy Hagel
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This current government in Iraq has never fulfilled the commitments it made to form a unity government with the Kurds, the Sunnis and the Shia. We have worked hard with them within the confines of our ability to do that but we can't dictate to them.
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I'm a supporter of Israel, always have been.
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In a general way, if one cannot attribute to the Jew the whole responsibility of the situation, economic, political, and social, by which Algeria is being strangled, it is no exaggeration to recognize him as morally guilty, for the great part of his rìle here, still more than elsewhere, has consisted in corrupting, degrading, and disintegrating.
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[Sheehan] deserves some consideration, and I think that should have been done right from the beginning.
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