At the end of the day...if your army won't fight, it's because they don't trust their incompetent, corrupt generals, they don't trust each other. This is an enduring civil war between the Shia, the Sunni, and the Kurds. So I don't think we've got any options and we'd be ill-advised to start bombing where we really can't sort out the combatants or understand where the civilian population is.
Barry McCaffreyThe United States and Mexico are trapped - economically, culturally, politically and because of drug crime - in the same continent.
Barry McCaffreyWe say in a democracy that good ideas will drive out bad ones, so if the good ones aren't there, we're left with the bad ones
Barry McCaffreyThank God we're going to try to continue and effectively defend our frontiers with the Border Patrol, with the Customs Department, with the Coast Guard, with the Armed Forces.
Barry McCaffrey