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We Have To Know Who We Are And Know What We Believe.

I Am Straight Forward; I Am Not Manipulative; I Am Not Two-faced. And I Think That That Has Served Me Well In All Of My Roles, Particularly As A Diplomat, Because People Knew If I Said Something, I Meant It. If I Said No, I Meant No, And If I Said We Could Make This Work, We Would Make It Work.

I Am A Team Player - And That Is What You Need To Be An Effective Point Guard. You Gotta See The Court, You Gotta Set Up The Play, And You Gotta Let Others Execute For The Most Part. I Don't Throw Elbows For The Sake Of Throwing Elbows, But If Somebody Throws One At Me And It's Necessary To Respond In Kind, I Suppose I Can If I Have To.

Bashar Al-assad And Those Who Still Stand By Him Are Now Responsible For The Deaths Of More Than 20,000 In Syria.

In This Day And Age, The U.s. And Europe Do Not Have The Luxury Of Focusing Solely On A Single Region.