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My Overall Worldview Has Never Changed: That America Has And Must Maintain The Strongest Military In The World, That We Must Lead The International Community To Confront Threats And Challenges Together, And That We Must Use All Tools Of American Power To Protect Our Citizens And Our Interests.

The Twenty First Century Will Require A Re-affirmation And Re-definition Of Our Alliances And International Organisations.

I'm Not Sure Leaders Listen Enough, Especially To Their People. And I've Always Thought In Everything I've Tried To Do In My Life, In The Jobs I've Had, Is That If We Can Turn Our Transmitters Off And Our Receivers On More Often, We're Better Leaders And We Know More Of What Is Going On And Therefore We Can Lead More Effectively.

This Current Government In Iraq Has Never Fulfilled The Commitments It Made To Form A Unity Government With The Kurds, The Sunnis And The Shia. We Have Worked Hard With Them Within The Confines Of Our Ability To Do That But We Can't Dictate To Them.

Nations, Great Nations Have Limitations. All Nations Have Limitations. Even Great Powers Have Limitations.