Things Have Gotten So Nasty In Washington.

One Of The Toughest Battles In Intelligence Is Combating Conventional Wisdom.

Soviet Foreign Ministers Would Come In To See The President All The Time, Routinely. Jimmy Carter Stopped That After The Invasion Of Afghanistan. Ronald Reagan Resumed It In 1984, I Think. And So The Fact Of A Meeting Like That I Think Is Not That Big A Deal.

On The Foreign Policy Side, There's The Risk Of Being Too Spontaneous And Too Disruptive Where You End Up Doing More Harm Than Damage. And Figuring Out That Balance Is Where Having Strong People Around You Matters.

I'm A Big Advocate Of Drones.

There Will Be Boots On The Ground If There's To Be Any Hope Of Success In The Strategy.