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Sometimes,doing nothing is the best reaction.

You know as well as I do that counterinsurgency is a very nuanced type of military operation.

One is the goals of 9/11 itself, of that attack was to draw the United States into Afghanistan to fight a counterinsurgency as the Soviets had done before them.

I think indeed our response on counterinsurgency needs to be finely tuned to the needs of Afghanistan. This is not Iraq. We don’t have a Sons of Iraq here. We don’t have the same divisions here that we had between Sunni and Shia.

I do not believe that a counterterrorism strategy all by itself, without a sufficient level of counterinsurgency, will work.

There are some ideas that will translate from Iraq to Afghanistan and there are many that will not. The first lesson of counterinsurgency, in fact, is that every situation is truly unique, has its own context, its own specific set of factors – and you have to understand that context in enormous detail to be able to craft a sound and comprehensive approach.