That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude.

We didn't do anything wrong, but among the lessons learned, given the magnitude of the problems we now face in Afghanistan, a major U.S. force on the ground would convince the world we were in for the long-haul recovery of a country devastated by 21 years of warfare.

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

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.

Let them march all they want, as long as they continue to pay their taxes.

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

To declare the Cold War over, and declare democracy has won out over totalitarianism, is a measure of arrogance and wrong-headedness.