I believe the only time when we can call for intervention is when there is an ongoing genocide.
We can kill lots of people. We do kill lots of people. We can destroy virtually anything we choose to destroy.
The first time you blow someone away is not an insignificant event.
There is no corporation in the world that would, in a competitive environment, try and concentrate all decisions at the corporate level.
I can't imagine that I would be asked that by the president-elect [Donald Trump], or then-president [Barack Obama]. But it's - I'm very clear. I voted for the change that put the Army Field Manual in place as a member of Congress. I understand that law very, very quickly and am also deeply aware that any changes to that will come through Congress and the president.
I find it disturbing that no member of the Senate Armed Services Committee is willing to acknowledge that record of failure and to ask our next secretary of defense what he proposes to do to amend that sorry record.
The destruction that we have wreaked in the various theaters in which we've been engaged is really quite astonishing. But again, lethality, destruction, killing doesn't seem to achieve our objectives. So, my own sense is that a lack of lethality does not define the core problem.
. . . one of the immutable laws of being human is that the people who show up are the right people. [p. 65]
Slow thinking has the feeling of something you do. It's deliberate.
The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.
So much of parenting is following your instincts, and taking the time to actually know your child.