it's not just our mission, it's their mission, which we're helping them to succeed with.
In my view, there's some demagoguery going on over here on this issue.
Thank you for your devoted service to the Marine Corps and to the Nation.
I'm not really sure what utility changing this name would bring about.
The enemy is not monolithic, and we have to adapt to how the enemy has adapted, but, yes, sir.
There's no doubt in my mind it is, sir.
it's a moral imperative that we use everything we have to ensure that they get out of it.
Violence and progress coexist in Afghanistan, and sometimes the violence blinds us to the progress.
I think we met about 40 years ago and in the intervening 40 years he has acquitted himself magnificently as a soldier.
That transition point is not a withdrawal, but it is a transition to a different mission.
their lives are on the line whenever they do that.