Israel is the largest American aircraft carrier in the world that cannot be sunk, does not carry even one American soldier, and is located in a critical region for American national security.

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.

More often than not, Americans and Westerners overestimated the power and capability of the Soviet Union.

Sooner or later something had to give. But President Bush, faced with the unprecedented affront of 9-11, could not wait to take action. So he had to do what we were capable of doing, and he did it brilliantly.

I think that perhaps the classic propagandists of the - in the Second World War was Winston Churchill. He was extremely skilled and adept at it.

What the fundamentalists are doing is a total negation of their own faith - encouraging and lionizing suicide bombers and killing women and children, hardly in keeping with the teachings of Prophet Mohammed.

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.