We dont want the Taliban to put down roots, or the al Qaeda to put down roots in Afghanistan that can facilitate Afghanistan becoming - once again - a launching pad for international terrorism.

We dont want the Taliban to put down roots, or the al Qaeda to put down roots in Afghanistan that can facilitate Afghanistan becoming - once again - a launching pad for international terrorism.

There are problems in the world today.

It's not possible to put into words the sense of loss and grief that comes to a family that loses one of their children.

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.

What we need to do is ensure that we don't create an environment that puts us on a track conceivably where the United States military finds itself in a civil military crisis with a commander in chief who would have us do illegal things.