With Hillary Clinton as our commander in chief, our international relations will not be reduced to a business transaction. I also know that our armed forces will not become an instrument of torture and they will not be engaged in murder or carry out other illegal activities.

We need to have a commander-in-chief who knows what she is doing.

Planning is really the hallmark of any large military formation, and it's typically a weakness in new formations and new armies.

One would think that if you're anonymous, you'd do anything you want, but groups have their own sense of community and what we can do.

There is a direct line relationship between what happened in Afghanistan in the work up to 11 September 2001 and what we're doing in Afghanistan today.

When we talk about carpet bombing ISIL, that's what it looks like, creating huge numbers of civilian casualties, which increases the numbers of refugees flowing out of the region, which increases the misery of the Syrian people.

The thing that I'm always left with is this overwhelming desire for people to be rooted and the only way that they feel rooted is through another person.