This is a ping-pong game with American lives. These young men and women that we put in Anbar province, in Iraq, in Baghdad, are not beans. They're real lives. And we better be damn sure we know what we're doing, all of us, before we put 22,000 more Americans into that grinder.
We are perceived as a nation at war with Muslims. This debilitating and dangerous perception must be reversed.
If he'd been in the military, he would have learned gun safety.