The power to prevent violence is a power that no police force seems to have anywhere in the United States.
The power to prevent violence is a power that no police force seems to have anywhere in the United States.
The power to prevent violence is a power that no police force seems to have anywhere in the United States.
So, these political activities will create friction in and of themselves, and in this environment of friction there’ll be additional violence.
I think what actually works best is local-level individual targeting of key leadership nodes.
I don’t believe Iran is a suicide state.
But my Arabic is pretty good. It’s good enough to have conversations with people, to understand what they say, to understand what they’re feeling.
But I am satisfied that the information that we have that this is the work of Zarqawi, is accurate.
As far as Zarqawi is concerned, there is a network of extremists; it’s not just Zarqawi.
Nobody’s more mindful of the sacrifices of our troops than those of us that command them.
It’s clear to me now that we’ve got to reach out to the Arab Sunni community in particular in an effort to cause some moderate political activity to take place so they join the future of Iraq.
Clearly the Secretary of Defense, my boss, would like nothing better than to get Osama bin Laden and to get… to ensure the complete defeat of al-Qaida, because we know that al-Qaida is planning operations against the United States even as we speak here.