Yousef Aid Ahmed has memorized the places where his four brothers' bodies laid after they were killed by US marines, he said. The family recounts that November day in 2005 and says it was a massacre of the brothers, along with 20 other people, following a roadside bomb in Haditha.

We do everything humanly possible, consistent with military necessity, taking many chances to avoid civilian casualties, at all costs.

Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face NOTHING new under the sun.

I find it disturbing that no member of the Senate Armed Services Committee is willing to acknowledge that record of failure and to ask our next secretary of defense what he proposes to do to amend that sorry record.

The first time you blow someone away is not an insignificant event.

Anyone who kills women and children is not devout. ISIS cannot dress themselves up in false religious garb and say that somehow this message has dignity. We're going to strip them of any kind of legitimacy.

There is no corporation in the world that would, in a competitive environment, try and concentrate all decisions at the corporate level.