This is a particularly urgent situation and it looks like the military is the only thing that's functioned in this entire mess. Once they arrived, things turned around.

It's really industrial policy. The notion that it could be efficient is crazy.

Many of these questions are extremely controversial, from abortion to gay rights, to the authority of the federal government over the states, and so on and so forth.

We want to set this up properly because we are dealing with a military hierarchy and I might set it up wrongly.

This is clearly a military map of some sort,

This was a military organization run on military lines -- the very, very thing that at the time the American military was telling us did not exist. And it was access to this group that told me that this war was going to be a long and very ugly one.