and three, afghanistan. what are we going to do? do you want to pick off each one? peace and strength, what we mean is don t gut the military. the president don t forget, gave us a big cut to the military, $478 billion, which we think goes past the bone and compromises readiness and strength. we need to give our sold yerks sailors and airmen and marines the equipment to do the job as safely as possible. sequestration, i know you talked about this. this is a wonky word. we passed the legislation in the house to prevent it from happening by cutting government spending elsewhere. let s get after that. there is waste from the pentagon. we need to go after that. but by doing this with the reckless defense cuts coming down the pike, coming under president obottom s lack of leadership or his proposals, that weakens us. that is not peace through strength. we believe that that is wrong, we would do that differently. with respect to afghanistan, we believe and agree with the 2014 transformat
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huntsman and that is, the latest breach in relations with pack stab, as we both know, in response to the killing of at least two dozen pakistani sold yerks the pakistanis say the u.s. and nato have to stop drone operations from one airbase in their country. and they are cutting off the two major supply routes for nato into afghanistan. let me start with you, senator kyl, what would you do about it? well, there is a lot of diplomacy that has to occur and it needs to be tough in that they need to understand our sppt financially is dependent upon our cooperation with us. but you can t cut off all assistance because we do need their support in the region. let me tell you a quick story. two weeks before 9/11, i was part of an intelligence committee trip and visiting with president musharraf, he made the point that because we had cut off military support and