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“In other words, for every 10 enemy you kill you bring on 20 new recruits to their anti-coalition cause then essentially you are working against yourself.”

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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.

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You know as well as I do that counterinsurgency is a very nuanced type of military operation.

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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.

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The power to prevent violence is a power that no police force seems to have anywhere in the United States.

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