Political Quotes

My concern is that I don't see an overreaching--or overriding strategy on the part of the United States with this complex challenge for the next 20 or 30 years.

Secretary Gates told President Bush that Guantanamo was a national security liability and advised him to close it down.

As I sat there I thought, the president doesn't trust his commander, can't stand Karzai, doesn't believe it his own strategy and doesn't consider the war to be his. For him it's all about getting out.

They're not going to be able to be successful against the ISIS strictly from the air or strictly depending on the Iraqi forces or the Peshmerga or the Sunni tribes acting on their own.