I Think Indeed Our Response On Counterinsurgency

At Some Point, Deliberation Begins To Look More Like Indecisiveness Which Then Becomes A Way Of Emboldening Our Enemies And Allies And Causing Our Allies To Question Our Resolve. So We Shouldn't Let One Component Of This Determine Our National Security Here Which Depends On Providing An Afghanistan Which Denies A Safe Haven To Terrorists As Well As Stabilizing Pakistan. Those Are Our Two National Security Interests At Stake In Afghanistan.

Counting The Numbers Of Troops Is Not Going To Define Our Success Here.there Is No Military Success, Ultimately, To Afghanistan. The Afghans Themselves Are Going To Define What Happens Here. And We Have To Convince Ourselves That We Have A Strategy In Place That Empowers Them To Do That And That Is Realistic In What Our Expectations Are From Them And On What Schedule.

And It's Time As A Country That We Have An Assault Weapon Ban.

Things Happened There That I Don't Think Are The Finest Hours For Anybody, Whether It Was A Journalist, The Legal System Or, In That Case Of The Political System, Who Would Say That Was An Example Of When Washington Worked Best.

I Think That Every Country Presents Its Own Particular Challenges, Different Cultures, Different Histories, Different Religions, Different People. And Different Ethnic Make-ups In Those Countries Present Different Challenges.