It's A Failure Only If

I Think One Of The Keys To Leadership Is Recognizing That Everybody Has Gifts And Talents. A Good Leader Will Learn How To Harness Those Gifts Toward The Same Goal.

As Far As The Command Centers Are Concerned In Raqqa And To A Lesser Degree Mosul, Cut Those Off. Do The Same Kind Of Thing That We Did With Sinjar , Working With Our Embedded Special Forces With The Kurds, Shut Off The Supply Route, Soften Them Up, Then We Go In With Specials Ops Followed By Our Air Force To Take Them Over. Those Are Things That Work.

When I Look At The Human Brain I'm Still In Awe Of It. Every Single Time You Lift Off The Bone And Open The Durra And There It Is - The Human Brain, The Thing That Gives A Person A Personality, That Distinguishes Each One Of Us, That There Could Be More Than 6 Billion Of Us Here On This Planet With Brains That Look The Same, But Each One Being Distinctly Different Because Of What Is Going On In That Thing. I'll Never Get Over My Awe Of That.

You Know If There Is A Rabid Dog Running Around Your Neighborhood, You're Probably Not Going To Assume Something Good About That Dog, And You're Probably Gonna Put Your Children Out Of The Way. Doesn't Mean That You Hate All Dogs By Any Stretch Of The Imagination.

This Whole Concept Of Boots On The Ground, We've Got A Phobia About Boots On The Ground. If Our Military Experts Say, We Need Boots On The Ground, We Should Put Boots On The Ground And Recognize That There Will Be Boots On The Ground And They'll Be Over Here, And They'll Be Their Boots If We Don't Get Out Of There Now.