I think America has to do more than be a broker now. Because both the Palestinians are weak and Israel is very weak.

But there is scant evidence to tie Saddam to terrorist organizations, and even less to the Sept. 11 attacks.

We believe we are creating the beginning of a new world order coming out of the collapse of the US-Soviet antagonisms.

America has never seen itself as a national state like all others, but rather as an experiment in human freedom and democracy.

After the '30s, we said, "no more Munichs." And it got us in a lot of problems. Then we said, "No more Vietnams." Now if we say, "No more Iraqs," the next one won't be an Iraq. It will be something different. You can't learn lessons.

Who is the guarantor, if there is one, of a more stable world? It's the United States.

Perhaps the most troubling area in the world goes from the Balkans through the Middle East and in Central Asia.