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We're in a global war, facing an enemy alliance that runs from Pyongyang, North Korea, to Havana, Cuba, and Caracas, Venezuela.

There is no substitute for American leadership and exceptionalism.

My message to you is very clear: Wake up, America!

The intelligence community does not have complete 'eyes on' the totality of the Iranian nuclear program, nor can it guarantee that we have identified all of Iran's nuclear facilities and processes.

If people want to change the law, they should vote so that we can appoint pro-life judges. I believe the law should be changed.

Within the government, within the Department of Justice, the Department of Defense, you have practically eliminated any training or any use of the term 'radical Islam.' That's what we're facing.

I could care less if someone is purple polka-dotted.

We're in a world war.

All I would say is that I have been honored to serve my country for the past three decades and look forward to serving in other ways now that I am retired from the U.S. Army.

If Hamas were destroyed and gone, we would probably end up with something much worse. The region would end up with something much worse.

I am certain - I am deadly certain that we cannot win this war unless we are free to call our enemy by name: Radical Islamicists and failed tyrants.

The point is technology and innovation have advanced far past what DCGS is capable of doing. It's not an agile enough tool to be able to incorporate and integrate the most advanced technology that is on the shelf today that can be bought by our forces that frankly our war-fighting units want.

We have real enemies, dedicated to dominating and eventually destroying us, and they are not going to be talked out of their hatred.

The Salafists, the Muslim Brotherhood, and Al Qaeda in Iraq are the major forces driving the insurgency in Syria.

What people do in their private lives, these are not big issues that our country's dealing with.

Is there going to be a peace in the Middle East? Not in my lifetime.

DCGS is hard to learn. It takes a long time. You have to use it all the time, which means it's not a simple technology that people are used to and can buy off the shelf today. And frankly, it doesn't do what it's touted to do. That's why you see units out on the battlefield asking for very similar things.

I've been a soldier too long to refuse to entertain any request from a potential commander in chief.

You cannot defeat an enemy you do not admit exists.