Problem was that we could make things worse but we couldn't make anything better.

Problem was that we could make things worse but we couldn't make anything better.

Aggressiveness is good in a combat leader. Combining that with ambition and insecurity becomes more problematic.

Morally repugnant and tactically stupid are a lousy combination.

The manuscript you submit [should not] contain any flaws that you can identify - it is up to the writer to do the work, rather than counting on some stranger in Manhattan to do it for him.

The only judgment that truly matters is the final judgment.

Before Bin Laden did everything but advertise. Yet he had to blow up the Twin Towers just to get the attention of anyone outside the intelligence community. So what did we do? We invaded the wrong country, killed the wrong madman, and too often used the wrong interrogation techniques on the wrong people-all because our leaders lost contact with the truth.