We’ve got to ensure that the quality and the capability of these forces will be good enough to withstand the challenges that the insurgents and the terrorists will present to the new Iraqi government.
Certainly our goal is to leave Iraq, but we can’t leave Iraq with our forces until we know that the Iraqi security forces are capable and efficient enough to defend the sovereignty of the nation.
But clearly the fact that we’ve gone from zero Iraqi security forces on duty in May to up to 200,000 today is an enormous accomplishment, but it’s not enough.
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.
I was lucky enough to have parents that took me out from country to country and go to school and learn how to be a better person.
Once I realized I wanted live in New York, I saved enough money that I wouldn’t have to get a job right away. That was important to me, to focus on acting; I didn’t want to come here and just fall into the mix.
A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.
Ideas aren’t magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down.
The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages – as if the savages weren’t dangerous enough already.
Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.
