I Don't Believe Iran Is A Suicide

Capturing Any Member Of Any Terrorist Cell Or Any Insurgent Cell That We May Happen To Come Across Is Always Very, Very Valuable, And The Thing That Interests Me Is That In Most Instances After A Time People Talk And They Tell Us What They Know.

I Think You Also Understand That One Of The Key Things That's Got To Be Done In Iraq Is To Build A Mentality Of Understanding That The Military Needs To Be Subordinate To Civilian Control And Respectful Of Its Own People.

We'll Try To Include Iraqi Officers In Our Staffs. We Will Do Everything We Can To Empower Iraqi Security Forces To Stand Up On Their Own And Operate Where They Can Alone.

And Over Time, I Think, As Iraqi Security Capacity Builds, You'll See American And Coalition Presence There Decline.

The United States Is The Most Powerful Nation On Earth And It Just Can't Walk Away From The Middle East And Central Asia And The Horn Of Africa.