I think these al Qaeda franchise groups have clearly evolved into a much more dangerous strain.
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.
I've been a soldier too long to refuse to entertain any request from a potential commander in chief.
I've been called an extremist.
The only way to clean up Chicago is to get rid of Capone.
If people want to change the law, they should vote so that we can appoint pro-life judges. I believe the law should be changed.
Tehran already has the largest inventory of ballistic missiles in the Middle East.
I've always operated so far outside my lane, I'm not sure what lane is mine anymore.
My God, war is not about bathrooms. War is not about political correctness or words that are meaningless. War is about winning.
On the gay issue, hey, you know what, if people love each other, Jesus, I mean come on.
The historic lesson is that it was a strategic failure to go into Iraq. History will not be and should not be kind with that decision.
I mentioned it yesterday: I'm one of these people that - I don't - like, on the abortion issue, it's not something that - I'm very uncomfortable talking about it. I'm not gonna kid you. It's a very uncomfortable thing. I think that it's a legal issue. Definitely a legal issue. It's been decided upon by our Supreme Court.
We should quit using phrases like 'turning points' and 'tipping points.' There's been multiple turning points, multiple tipping points.
What we need to do is we need to come to grips with this cancerous form of the Islamic religion that is breaking down the Arab world order, and that is very clear.
The tactical issue is ISIS or ISIL in the greater Levant area, which is essentially Syria, and Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan, et cetera. But the wider problem is not just trans-regional in that part of the world, but it's also global. I mean, 40 to 50 countries supplying fighters to this current fight in the Middle East? Come on.
I think ISIS is achieving the objectives that they have set out to achieve. I think that they feel probably very emboldened. They feel pretty good. Their resiliency is extraordinary.
What we achieved under General Petraeus up through 2011, and defeating this threat that we faced out there, I mean, once we decided to come out of there, we squandered an enormous opportunity that, frankly, the military did actually provide our nation and provided the Middle East.
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.
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.
What he's really talking about - and I'm speaking for Mike Flynn, not Donald Trump - is that he's saying, essentially, we have to have options. We have to have a lot of options. And, frankly, we do. We do have a lot of options.
