No one person leads alone - can't do it, it's impossible. It doesn't make any sense. You need a team.

We live in a world where there are dangerous people, there are bad people.

[Sheehan] deserves some consideration, and I think that should have been done right from the beginning.

We live in a world of absolute immediacy. It is an interconnected, combustible world, where technology and many other actions have given nonstate actors a reach, into countries and societies, for both good and evil, that we have never seen before. So it isn't a matter of just state versus state challenges or conflict. The bigger problem is nonstate actors.

There has to be a reason and objective (to air strikes). What does it do to move the effort down the road for a political conversation?

This current government in Iraq has never fulfilled the commitments it made to form a unity government with the Kurds, the Sunnis and the Shia. We have worked hard with them within the confines of our ability to do that but we can't dictate to them.

No one person leads alone - can't do it, it's impossible. It doesn't make any sense. You need a team.