American - Public | September 8, 1950 -
Iran is not an enemy of ISIS; they have a lot to gain from the turmoil that ISIS creates.
Jim Mattis
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There is nothing better than getting shot at and missed. It's really great.
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I don't have the best track record with quotes.
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I believe that many of my young guys lived because I didn't waste their lives because I didn't have the vision in my mind of how to destroy the enemy at least cost to our guys and to the innocents on the battlefields.
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The economy's always been the engine for our national security.
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Prime Minister Maliki, released from American restraint, acted on his worst instincts, creating enormous distrust in Iraq's Kurdish population and deeply embittering Sunnis in western Iraq's Al Anbar, who lost any confidence in a Baghdad government they saw as adversarial.
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Basically, Islamic State is a combined al Qaeda and Lebanese Hezbollah on steroids, destabilizing the region, dissolving borders/changing the political geography in the Mid-east, and hardening political positions that make Mid-east peace-building more remote by the day.
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We all recognize that the Mid-east is dissolving into crises, and we know terrorism did not start with 9-11.
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As commanders and staff officers, we are coaches and sentries for our units: how can we coach anything if we don't know a hell of a lot more than just the TTPs?
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The Marines have landed, and we now own a piece of Afghanistan.
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Putin goes to bed at night knowing he can break all the rules, and the West will follow all the rules.
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