Adam Smith actually said...

"We don't have the ability to walk in and say we are going to fix this because there just isn't U.S. credibility in those parts of the world."

"But how do we contain that? Which groups are the greatest threat?"

"I want to emphasize though that although we agree that some degree of conditional military assistance is an appropriate way forward, the scale of leverage we can develop through assistance of the kind..."

"At the end of the day, it is simple to say that what we need to do is we need to win the ideological war."