Ken Bacon
Ken Bacon
emergency initial operations quickly self situation sort team
It's a sort of a self-contained, quickly movable team that can go in to an emergency situation abroad, set up a communications, set up an operations center, do some of the initial investigative work.
artillery defensive dispersion expected fair good including military moving position standard tanks
I think it is fair to say that things were in their expected position -- which was moved, ... They have been moving their military assets, including tanks and artillery -- and other things. Dispersion is a standard defensive tactic, and the Serbs are very good at dispersion.
material properly sold
Material that should have been demilitarized has not been properly demilitarized and is sold when it shouldn't have been.
disturbing extremely further looking obviously
These are obviously extremely disturbing and we're looking further at them.
unsaid
It's unsaid because that's not true. That's not the plan.
later plans postponed trip until
He (Cohen) did have tentative plans to go in June, and he has postponed any trip until some later date.
china committed engagement
He remains, of course, steadfastly committed to engagement with China as a long-term policy.
cnn energetic facts hope mission people true understand
I hope that CNN is ... energetic in making this retraction and clarification so that people do understand what the true facts of this mission were.
area government impact pressure public
But I think this is an area where pressure from the public is having an impact on what our government is doing.
basis carrying engagement europe military nearly normal policy regular troops
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.
completing early minds readiness training
I don't think completing your training early qualifies in most people's minds as a readiness problem.
increases life quality
I'd say it's a stronger, more supple military. I think that there have been important improvements in technology, important increases in investment, important improvements in quality of life
astray bomb nato
A NATO bomb went astray and we don't know what it hit.
activities beyond defensive far gulf seem three
I can tell you that their activities and buildup in the Gulf seem to go far beyond their defensive need, particularly on those three little islands.