I think the new generations in America, the America's youth, no longer care about Vietnam. They don't want to hear any more about it.

In Desert Storm, we had too many troops; in Afghanistan probably not enough for the major commitment we have made.

Syria is a terrorist state by any definition and is so classified by the State Department. I happen to think Iran is too. Iraq, Iran, Syria, they're all involved.

The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood.

Propaganda was an important arm of the Soviet diplomacy, very important.

You know, it's very clear, as one looks back on history again of the Cold War that, following the crisis in Cuba, following the Khrushchev - beating down of Jack Kennedy in Vienna, that President Kennedy believed that we had to join the battle for the Third World, and the next crisis that developed in that regards was Vietnam.

You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration, of feudalism and tribalism.