MB Civic

By Mike Mullen (Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff) | Saturday, February 14, 2009 | The Washington Post

“…We have learned, after seven years of war, that trust is the coin of the realm — that building it takes time, losing it takes mere seconds, and maintaining it may be our most important and most difficult objective.

That’s why images of prisoner maltreatment at Abu Ghraib still serve as recruiting tools for al-Qaeda. And it’s why each civilian casualty for which we are even remotely responsible sets back our efforts to gain the confidence of the Afghan people months, if not years….”…BS

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/13/AR2009021302580_pf.html