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.

Those who are seeking ways to tap into the potential of e-mail will find themselves in a position to capitalize on the pending explosion in Internet usage.

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

As I look back at the span of the Cold War in those early days, in the '50s, for example, there was a great deal of Soviet propaganda here in the United States, but it was clumsy, and it was anchored to a lot of ideological support in certain circles in America itself.

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

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.