“War is won by violence and killing…[W]hen you have Admiral Mullen…consistently saying you can’t win this war by killing, he reminds me of a police chief that gets up before a chamber of commerce and says, ‘You can’t defeat criminality by arresting people. Criminality begins in the hearts of men, and there it must be stopped.’, at which point you should fire that policeman,” says Bing West, author of The Wrong War: Grit, Strategy, and the Way Out of Afghanistan.