I am in control here, in the White House.

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

If they analyze the situation as thoroughly as they should, Muslims will realize they are the first targets. What are the fundamentalists really after? Simply taking over Islam and then turning its back on modernity.

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.

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.

I started out as a Cold Warrior, even my last years in grade school.

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.