Obviously, it's up to Indonesia to provide for the security of its own people in East Timor, as well as United Nations workers and other foreigners in East Timor, |
Our goal is not to relocate refugees permanently onto U.S. territory, |
Our goal is not to relocate refugees permanently onto U.S. territory. |
Our spending now is a little less than $300 billion a year. It's.. as I say, there are always ways to spend more money, or to spend it faster. There are always demands to modernize. |
President Yeltsin has said that the Russians do not plan to get involved in this conflict, and since that is a very reasonable tack for the Russians to take, we take him at his word on that. |
Recruiting is on an upswing. In the last couple of months, the services have exceeded their recruiting goals, |
Recruiting is on an upswing. In the last couple of months, the services have exceeded their recruiting goals. |
Remember, our goal is disarmament. We don't want to fuel the fighting and the arms race in Kosovo; we want to end it. |
Right now we're concentrating primarily on searching for and caring for survivors. But when that phase of the operation is over, obviously we'll have to concentrate on providing food and shelter. |
Secondly, ... the military is carrying out on a regular basis it's normal engagement policy, a policy with 100,000 -- nearly 100,000 troops forward-deployed in Europe and nearly 100,000 troops forward-deployed in the Asia-Pacific region. |
Some of this involves cutting out clutter on the Internet and focusing Web sites so that they provide useful amounts of information without overwhelming users. |
Sophisticated systems such as the SAM-6 missile can be moved very easily. The Iraqis do that, and the Serbs do it as well, |
Sophisticated systems such as the SAM-6 missile can be moved very easily. The Iraqis do that, and the Serbs do it as well. |
Taking out a couple hundred soldiers here and a couple hundred soldiers there is not what we consider a withdrawal. We consider that to be theater. |
That will bring our total of stealth fighters up to 24 in the theater, and our total number of aircraft up to about 220, |