ruthless par for character to get things done in ad nightmare landscape. patriquin saab the good and the potential good in mini people and related lessons in the military and any organization to have to haveary the reputation oddball, are treasured and chairs to give the opportunity to yell and scream and argue to challenge the prevailing wisdom to have a team that i don't think we had going into the air our core to have 10 people in their room some good managers and politicians that you will argue the case against the invasion are any major government policy.

you do it for three weeks to see what comes out of the discussion. that is how you do it but patriquin was a one-man show doing that. and always skeptical of the prevailing wisdom.i th that is one of the lessons.ty g americans are pretty good but we t need to respect and institutionalize that that is what he had in addition buckle to oral tolerance to connect with them which is a free spirit to celebrate that too.tt . .

extent. do you know dealing with the local population, learning the language, all these things that are very logical now, they had largely forgotten when we invaded iraq. the special forces, but the big army had forgotten it and they learned it pretty quickly and d. are no came in and they adopted a lot of the lessons learned in anbar province. i think americans in general have to learn from the american military though. what some of these lessons are. because they are critical lessons. we have to know these lessons now on the world stage. we need to expand their thinking, do more homework, think and an intellectually more open way about all of these and who are potential allies are and how to defend americans and what real national security is an liberate ourselves from some of the clichés that we have fallen victim to over the last nine years in this incredible new world. i think patrick shows as part of the way in doing that.

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