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...just talking about financial institutions or companies in general, such as GM? It applies to any kind of firm that isn't solvent. It doesn't matter if it's a car producer, an industrial firm or a financial firm. It should be encouraged or even compelled to file for bankruptcy. When you keep on bailing out institutions indiscriminately, there is no incentive for them to be prudent in what they're doing, because they know that whatever they do, whatever problems they create by their own behavior, the government will come along and bail them...
...compound from which they were receiving fire. In the brief you ordered your commanders to "stop dropping compounds." Can you tell me more about this? What we have done is written a tactical directive. And it provides my intent on how we are going to execute operations in general [to be released soon]. But specifically, the use of deadly force. The reason I spent a lot of time personally writing that intent is because I wanted to make sure that before they went into the specific dos and don'ts, that they understood the framework and the concept behind...
...later with a prosthetic arm, and he was upbeat and focused, and as I sat with those guys that night, it was the focused professionalism of those guys. It was amazing - they were not shook. And [I said], "O.K., where were you on 9/11?" And I was a general officer, and he looked at me and said, "Sir, I was in sixth grade." And that reminded me of something. It reminded me of what kind of force we had. I'll think of others...
...More in general, what did your previous time in the country teach you? Because I got to see a fair amount of the country and the focus on the gathering of the operations enabled by intelligence, it was the need to understand what was happening. The focus on not looking at the superficial or most obvious. It's the trying to get several layers down into what happened. Because as we would try to conduct operations in an area, the most obvious was usually the most incorrect. So you had to get down to what the motivation of somebody...
...regional problem. Our success in Afghanistan and Pakistan - they are unique situations that are linked inextricably - I think that we can't be entirely successful here unless there is some measure of success against Afghan Taliban and other al-Qaeda in Pakistan. Similarly, and I met with General [Ashfaq] Kayani yesterday, I don't think that they can be entirely successful in maintaining security in the tribal areas unless Afghanistan is a stable state, so I think there is a shared mutual interest because they both feed on each other...