Don't Just Count Your Days, Make Your

Politics Is Not Bean Bags. It's Serious, Tough Stuff.

Always Be Looking For The Opportunities, And Always Be Optimistic About What You Can Do With That Opportunity.

Our Senior Officers Knew The War Was Going Badly. Yet They Bowed To Groupthink Pressure And Kept Up Pretenses. ...many Of My Generation, The Career Captains, Majors, And Lieutenant Colonels Seasoned In That War, Vowed That When Our Turn Came To Call The Shots, We Would Not Quietly Acquiesce In Halfhearted Warfare For Half-baked Reasons That The American People Could Not Understand.

You Can't Make Someone Else's Choices. You Shouldn't Let Someone Else Make Yours.

The Purposes Of The United States Should Not Be Doubted. The Security Council Resolutions Will Be Enforced - The Just Demands Of Peace And Security Will Be Met - Or Action Will Be Unavoidable. And A Regime That Has Lost Its Legitimacy Will Also Lose Its Power.