Meant that he didnt have a military plan were immediately responding to this, then that is not a strategy. That is an operational plan. So either he didnt have a strategy or he doesnt understand what strategy it is. Either way, im troubled by the comments and it is yet to be explained and the strategy is not just a military action but how you employ diplomacy and your power of information and influence and economic power and it encompasses all of the elements of government in power and the building of coalitions and the forming of helping governance change social problems that might help you succeed. And in addition to a military, that is just one part of it and thats not a strategy in and of itself. Yes, sir . [inaudible] sir, i think that we need more of the people that we need and we need more captain ripleys and cross fries and you are right that for conventional war you can train people in 90 to 180 days and you can get very good soldiers to have a small war and im sure youve read
In principle, you cant get it done and you have to be creative and think about the future of those grandkids out there and what kind of future can they live under and how do you bring them together to he who they are, each other . They have to live under this and i would make one other point. Their legacy, if you look at them who signed a peace agreement, killed by his own people. And he was almost killed by these people. You look at people who made a tremendous offer at camp david and those that reach out for peace are willing to take the risk in this part of the world and the legacy isnt there either. They are certainly not appreciated immediately after and that is something that we have to change and its going to take a lot of courage on either side to take the risk and may be to compromise as well. There cant be a solution where one side is a winner and another is a loser. Sir . We know that the country is dysfunctional. The question is beside the middle east, do we know how things
For this to occur. And so the idea sounds great, but how do you get people to relinquish their powers and sampling to give it up to the intellectuals and to the people that have the best experience and can do this kind of thing to make it work. I would say that in democracies around the world, you are seeing this. Look at qadhafi, look at where assad is now. And people in the streets are now beginning to either vote in the ballot box or vote in this square in some way. Im thinking about iraq and you said that they have to have a purpose. But they are so dysfunctional they are just waiting to survive, that is what their purpose is today. We just saw the iraqis get rid of him. We see the elections, whoever is in offices the people who choose. But that system has so Many Political parties with the need to form Political Parties, its a dysfunctional democratic system. But the more Political Parties they are, look at how bad it is with us. You have a situation where its even worse than the
When a suspect in a terror attack is found with reading material promoting violence against the very same people who were the target of that hate crime,