The first official statements of President Asif Ali Zardari's new government have been firm and robust. Pakistan is obviously a renewed democracy.
David PetraeusAfghanistan 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.
David PetraeusThe Islamic State fighters in Mosul are dead men walking and I think they increasingly know it.
David Petraeus