If You Get An Infection, You Get

The Army Might Screw You And Your Girlfriend Might Dump You And The Enemy Might Kill You, But The Shared Commitment To Safeguard One Another’s Lives Is Unnegotiable And Only Deepens With Time. The Willingness To Die For Another Person Is A Form Of Love That Even Religions Fail To Inspire, And The Experience Of It Changes A Person Profoundly.

I Think, Unfortunately, We Live In A World Where People Attack Other People And I Think A Legitimate Rationale For War Is The Saving Of Human Life, The Saving Of Lives Of People Who Cannot Defend Themselves.

An Adventure Is A Situation Where The Outcome Is Not Entirely Within Your Control. It Is Up To Fate, In Other Words

No One Will Remember That President Obama Supported The Arab Spring If It Eventually Fails And The Region Collapses Back Into The Political Dark Ages. If We Actively Engage These Movements With Advice, With Money, And, When Necessary, With Military Force, Then We Get A Vote In How It All Turns Out.

Well, You Got To Remember, Bin Laden Killed 3,000 Americans And, In Some Ways, He And His Ideology Killed Tens Of Thousands Of His Fellow Muslims, Including Pakistanis. I Understand That That Was Provocative And Complicated For Pakistan, But Only If You Accept The Idea That He Was An Acceptable Member Of Pakistani Society.