I think, broadly speaking, the US military's role - US military activism in various parts of the Islamic world over the past several decades has been counterproductive.

You cannot allow any of your people to avoid the brutal facts. If they start living in a dream world, it's going to be bad.

You are part of the world's most feared and trusted force. Engage your brain before you engage your weapon.

We've backed off in good faith to try and give you a chance to straighten this problem out. But I am going to beg with you for a minute. I'm going to plead with you, do not cross us. Because if you do, the survivors will write about what we do here for 10,000 years.

Find the enemy that wants to end this experiment (in American democracy) and kill every one of them until they're so sick of the killing that they leave us and our freedoms intact.

You've been told that you're broken. That you're damaged goods ... there is also Post-Traumatic Growth. You come back from war stronger and more sure of who you are.

I don't see lethality as the problem. I mean, the lethality of US forces is quite remarkable.