We have caused the sons and daughters and brothers and uncles and sisters of those in the Syrian opposition to be slaughtered.
I think hubris certainly is something that can be the downfall of us all.
How does that get us the political solution?
We have a political problem.
A lot of people would suggest that that is essentially the policy that we have tried so far, that we have put in almost ...
Ten to 15 years is what you're recommending?
The threat of withdrawing humanitarian aid is only so good as the concern that leaders show for the people.
Do you worry that it is just simply not in the DNA of the Taliban to compromise, that we are not talking about a politic...
But that assumes that the Taliban is interested in a political solution.
I simply raise it because I think we use the wrong metric when we try to understand our presence there.
As Vice President Biden has said, the European Project and the enlargement process is possibly the most successful force...