The best thing we could have done for Afghanistan was to get out of our Humvees and drink more green chai. We should have focused less on finding the enemy, and more on finding our friends.

Craig M. Mullaney
The best thing we could have done for Afghanistan was...
The best thing we could have done for Afghanistan was...
The best thing we could have done for Afghanistan was...
The best thing we could have done for Afghanistan was...
About This Quote

In the midst of the turmoil of war, commanders sometimes forget that their soldiers are human beings. They lose sight of their humanity as they become lost in the details of the mission. In Afghanistan, this was not a problem for General Jim Mattis, who knew how to maintain his humanity as he led nearly 60,000 troops into battle against a determined and ruthless enemy. His humility was a key part of his success.

Source: The Unforgiving Minute: A Soldiers Education

Some Similar Quotes
  1. You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world, or the person you loved. - Stewart Onan
  2. Letting go doesn't mean that you don't care about someone anymore. It's just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself. - Deborah Reber
  3. To love life, to love it evenwhen you have no stomach for itand everything you've held dearcrumbles like burnt paper in your hands, your throat filled with the silt of it. When grief sits with you, its tropical heatthickening the air, heavy as watermore fit... - Ellen Bass
  4. To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous. - Elizabeth Gilbert
  5. Real isn't how you are made, ' said the Skin Horse. 'It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.''Does it hurt?' asked the... - Margery Williams Bianco
More Quotes By Craig M. Mullaney
  1. What after all, is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean.
  2. THOMAS GuiltyOf mankind. I have perpetrated human nature. My father and mother were accessories before the fact, But there’ll be no accessories after the fact, By my virility there won’t! Just see me As I am, like a perambulating Vegetable, patched with inconsequential Hair, looking...
  3. There may always be another reality to make fiction of the truth we think we've arrived at.
  4. The best thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost look as much like home as we can.
  5. Who apart From ourselves can see any difference between Our victories and our defeats?
Related Topics