You know, great powers don't get angry, great powers don't make decisions hastily in a crisis.

You know, great powers don't get angry, great powers don't make decisions hastily in a crisis.

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.

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.

We need to understand what we're saying matters.

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.

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