My assessment is that your profession, to some extent, has strayed from these ethical standards and allowed external agendas to manipulate what the A… - Ricardo Sanchez

While the politicians espouse their rhetoric designed to preserve their reputations and their political power, our soldiers die!

The best we can do with this flawed approach [the Iraq War surge] is to stave off defeat.

Since 2003, the politics of war have been characterized by partisanship as the Republican and Democratic parties struggled for power in Washington. National efforts to date have been corrupted by partisan politics that have prevented us from devising effective, executable, supportable solutions. At times, these partisan struggles have led to political decisions that endangered the lives of our sons and daughters on the battlefield. The unmistakable message was that political power had a greater priority than our national security objectives. Overcoming this strategic failure is the first step toward achieving victory in Iraq — without bipartisan cooperation we are doomed to fail. There is nothing going on in Washington that would give us hope.