Adam Smith actually said...

"We need allies. We need friends. We need partners in order to multiply, be a force multiplier basically."

"Capping the number of troops in Colombia was an important part of the success because it made the Colombians aware that we would help but it was their fight."

"But it certainly hasn't spun out of control. And we have had no attacks against U.S., Western targets come out of Al Shabaab and Somalia because we built that partner capacity and because we were able..."

"That partnership on our side between defense, development, and diplomacy is the building block to successfully build the partnerships with the local countries."