03/03/2010
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"You can't kill your way out of an insurgency."
"Our lack of strategic patience at the beginning of the 1990s paved the way to 9/11 a decade later."
"But consequences of abandoning that fight could be far more costly, and we have to be honest with ourselves about the grim consequences for Afghans, especially women, if we once again leave the field ..."
"I remember these conversations, 10 years ago, when Senator Hollings and we tried to pass a broadbased distribution of privacy rights."