Al-Qaida in particular remains dangerous, and there [in Iraq] is some residual militia and special group presence. There are still between 20 and 30 attacks per day, still periodic car bombs and still loss of innocent civilians.

I think Putin wants to recreate as much of the Soviet Union as he can through a variety of different means. He's invaded parts of Georgia, took Crimea, southeastern Ukraine, bases in other countries.

After being married for over 37 years, I showed extremely poor judgment by engaging in an extramarital affair.

Afghanistan has other enormous challenges as well, including a political system that is still very much developing, although there has been some progress in the past several years.

We cleared many of their towns and cities and rural areas of al-Qaida Iraq and other insurgents.

The fact is that Iran doesn't want to see the Taliban come back any more than do most Afghan citizens.

Progress in Iraq has always been about teams of people and teams of teams - and ultimately about young men and women, Iraqi as well as people from the coalition.