A strategy that ignores Assad... I just think in--I'm--I think we now need to recognize that that's not a logical strate...
I want to submit for the record an extraordinary speech by Robert Gates in 1992, when he was head of the CIA, on the dan...
we've got to find a strategy that allows us to move Assad aside in some way, working with the Russians, if necessary, or...
Which only exacerbates the sectarian conflict, which makes ISIS look good to the Sunni chiefs in Anbar.
Assad and ISIS are evil twins. ISIS largely came into existence in reaction to Assad.
it makes the ISIS look invincible and more powerful, and that's--helps in their recruiting, and it becomes a self-fulfil...
I really think you need to rethink a strategy about a safe zone, a no-fly zone, some protection from Assad's barrel bomb...
we're not going to defeat ISIS with just airpower. Everybody knows that.
the application has had unintended consequences that I think we have to get after now.
Challenging the status quo is necessary to find solutions to the hospital observation stay crisis.
We are fighting over a smaller and smaller share of the budget.
The one thing this institution does really well is avoidance.
Targeting our budget-balancing efforts on discretionary spending... is really missing the big picture.
It seems to me you have to look at both sides of the ledger if you are talking about stimulating economic growth.
The difficult decisions today will be impossible 10 years from now.
We are doing that to ourselves.
There is a famous saying of Golda Meir that Moses tramped all over the Middle East for 40 years and settled in the one p...
We are not talking about cutting environmental corners. We are talking about establishing a process that makes sense.
