Afghanistan is going to be here a long time, and what's critical is that Afghanistan's relationship with its neighbors are, to the maximum extent they can be, constructive and operationally useful.

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

We need to understand what we're saying matters.

I can't spend a lot of time worrying about the numbers at home. I've got to focus on the mission.

Protecting Afghan civilians is the cornerstone of our mission.

I seek as much as I can to mitigate risk.

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.