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.

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

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.

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.

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.