Adam Smith actually said...

"the best way to sum it up is our country simply wants this problem gone."

"what I really want to focus on is what should be done, regardless of who it is, who's in charge of it."

"To my mind, is not a logical thing for American counterterrorism purposes."

"We need to find some way to contain that and hopefully get us to the point where we can have a peaceful and reasonably stable regime in Afghanistan and in Pakistan."