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The Orlando terrorist is an example of someone who was in the sights of law enforcement but never crossed the threshold from pre-criminal to criminal behavior and, thus, was not tracked adequately before this horrific act.

~David Petraeus

Topics: Act Adequately Before Behavior Criminal Crossed Enforcement Example Horrific Law Law Enforcement Never Orlando Sights Someone Terrorist Threshold Thus Who

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We will win again in Iraq; I do think that Iraq can definitely be handled. I think that it can be kept intact.

~David Petraeus

Topics: Again Definitely Handled Intact Iraq Kept Think Will Win I Think

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Iran has had a very harmful effect in a variety of ways in the region... fomenting unrest to a degree in Saudi Arabia, undoubtedly in Bahrain, and definitely in Yemen with Hamas, with Lebanese Hezbollah among other activities in locations.

~David Petraeus

Topics: Activities Among Arabia Bahrain Definitely Degree Effect Had Hamas Harmful Iran Lebanese Locations Other Region Saudi Saudi Arabia Undoubtedly Unrest Variety Very Ways

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I think it's reality that Iran is going to have influence in Iraq. All elements of Iraq accepted that.

~David Petraeus

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It wasn't just Shia that would go to Tehran and see the commander of the Quds Force and others and the legitimate government leaders. It was also Kurdish leaders and Sunni Arabs who would even link up with Qassim Suleimani, the commander of the Quds Force - maybe not in Tehran but in Turkey or somewhere else.

~David Petraeus

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The Middle East is not part of the world that plays by Las Vegas rules: What happens in the Middle East is not going to stay in the Middle East.

~David Petraeus

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Like a nuclear disaster, the fallout from the meltdown of Syria threatens to be with us for decades, and the longer it is permitted to continue, the more severe the damage will be.

~David Petraeus

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The central problem in Syria is that Sunni Arabs will not be willing partners against the Islamic State unless we commit to protect them and the broader Syrian population against all enemies, not just ISIS.

~David Petraeus

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You have to keep on disrupting. If you let up the pressure, then al-Qaeda senior leadership will come back.

~David Petraeus

Topics: Al-Qaeda Back Come Keep Leadership Pressure Senior Then Up Will You

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We're all outriders out there, and what we have is all these large number of tasks - that's the herd; that's all the cattle - a whole bunch of individual, hundreds if not thousands of projects at any given time ongoing that we're trying to complete. So we're trying to keep the cattle herd, keep it all just going in the right direction.

~David Petraeus

Topics: Any Any Given Time Bunch Cattle Complete Direction Given Going Herd Hundreds Individual Just Keep Large Large Number Number Ongoing Out Projects Right Right Direction Tasks Thousands Time Trying Whole

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Soldier

Born: November 7th, 1952

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