Zitat des Tages von Michael T. Flynn:
As brutal as Saddam Hussein was, it was a mistake to just eliminate him. The same is true for Moammar Gadhafi and for Libya, which is now a failed state.
Units were coming to combat with DCGS because it was their tool kit, so to speak, but they basically had it boxed up and parked in a corner. They were using off-the-shelf stuff they were having to buy prior to coming into the theater.
We're in a global war, facing an enemy alliance that runs from Pyongyang, North Korea, to Havana, Cuba, and Caracas, Venezuela.
If we are going to conduct a population-centric strategy in Afghanistan, and we are perceived as backing thugs, then we are just undermining ourselves.
All I would say is that I have been honored to serve my country for the past three decades and look forward to serving in other ways now that I am retired from the U.S. Army.
If Hamas were destroyed and gone, we would probably end up with something much worse. The region would end up with something much worse.
There is no substitute - none - for American power.
Frankly, Donald Trump won the candidacy for the Republican Party. Let's get on board and help him win.
We're in a world war.
DCGS is hard to learn. It takes a long time. You have to use it all the time, which means it's not a simple technology that people are used to and can buy off the shelf today. And frankly, it doesn't do what it's touted to do. That's why you see units out on the battlefield asking for very similar things.
Donald Trump's leadership, decision-making and problem solving will restore America's role as the undeniable and unquestioned world leader.
On the gay issue, hey, you know what, if people love each other, Jesus, I mean come on.
I've been a soldier too long to refuse to entertain any request from a potential commander in chief.
One letter to bin Laden reveals that al Qaeda was working on chemical and biological weapons in Iran.
Iran has every intention to build a nuclear weapon.
The direction of this country is going into the wrong direction.
The point is technology and innovation have advanced far past what DCGS is capable of doing. It's not an agile enough tool to be able to incorporate and integrate the most advanced technology that is on the shelf today that can be bought by our forces that frankly our war-fighting units want.
We have real enemies, dedicated to dominating and eventually destroying us, and they are not going to be talked out of their hatred.
I do believe - I very strongly believe that the Arab nations would be willing to put together an Arab NATO-like structure.
The lack of trust between the federal government and the American citizens of this country is such a wide gap, we have to renew that trust for the people of this country going forward.
We have to face the fact that ISIS and its army of like-minded jihadists are determined to win that war and believe they are on the path to victory. They may well be right.
The Salafists, the Muslim Brotherhood, and Al Qaeda in Iraq are the major forces driving the insurgency in Syria.
Despite what you hear in the news from the Obama administration and the military, our strategy of conducting infrequent airstrikes and re-taking pockets of Iraq and Syria terrain will only help us achieve short-lived tactical victories.
What I believe in is I believe in law.
There's a lot of information on Iran in the files and computer discs captured at the Pakistan hideout of Osama bin Laden.
We want, certainly, the threats around the world, those that don't like our way of life, we want them to wonder what options we still have.
Given its Internet sophistication and the attraction the group has with vast numbers of potential recruits from among disaffected populations around the globe, ISIS has the realistic potential to eventually swell its ranks of jihadists waging a 'holy war' to hundreds of thousands in both the western and eastern hemispheres.
Because of Obama's ill-advised actions, the world has lost American leadership.
I grew up as a Democrat in a very strong Democratic family, but I will tell you that the Democratic Party that exists in this country is not the Democratic Party I grew up around.
We should not fear what our country was built on: a set of Judeo-Christian principles.
You cannot defeat an enemy you do not admit exists.
The only way to clean up Chicago is to get rid of Capone.
I don't know Jeb Bush. I've never met him.
What people do in their private lives, these are not big issues that our country's dealing with.
I am certain - I am deadly certain that we cannot win this war unless we are free to call our enemy by name: Radical Islamicists and failed tyrants.
Obama has made incredibly poor decisions that have made us less safe.