Quotes from John R. Allen

None of us wants any more war.

I seek as much as I can to mitigate risk.

We will oppose and resist tyranny as we will defeat evil.

We don't see that the Taliban ultimately can succeed, and it's a combination both of what the international community can do to support Afghanistan, not just in the short term, but over the long term.

There is a direct line relationship between what happened in Afghanistan in the work up to 11 September 2001 and what we're doing in Afghanistan today.