Insider Quote: ‘Getting off the X’ in Iraq

“My security colleagues would call it ‘getting off the X’. […] We run. We go. We do not stand and fight. We will execute a high-speed J-turn and we will get as far away from the attackers as we possibly can.”

Patrick Kennedy
Under Secretary of State for Management, U.S. Department of State
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