Well, the hardest thing to do, as we know from our own experience on 9/11 is protect everything all the time.

You don't build a new power plant in the United States overnight. It takes years to build.

But the key shift in focus will be from counter-insurgency operations to more and more cooperation with Iraqi security forces and to building Iraqi security capacity.

We'll try to include Iraqi officers in our staffs. We will do everything we can to empower Iraqi security forces to stand up on their own and operate where they can alone.

I don't believe Iran is a suicide state.

Well, the hardest thing to do, as we know from our own experience on 9/11 is protect everything all the time.

I think you also understand that one of the key things that's got to be done in Iraq is to build a mentality of understanding that the military needs to be subordinate to civilian control and respectful of its own people.