There are problems in the world today.

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.

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

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

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

We dont see that the Taliban ultimately can succeed, and its a combination both of what the international community can do to support Afghanistan, not just in the short term, but over the long term.

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.