Chuck Hagel: “Here the term quagmire could apply. Some reject that term, but if that is not a quagmire, then what is?”

It is hard to overstate how damaging the continued existence of the Detention Facility at Guantanamo has been and continues to be.

It just feeds into all that instability, and unrest, and unpredictability, which makes a damn dangerous world.

This is so unpredictable. And we've never seen anything quite like this in our lifetime, so there is no playbook here.

When the National Guard opened up on students and killed students, partly because they weren't trained, they panicked.