It is beyond dispute that Saddam Hussein is a menace.

If you look back at the first Gulf war, the Arabs sent forces, they sent money. So their interests in Iraq are clear, but they're nowhere to be seen now. Why? Because right now, it's dangerous to be seen as supporting the United States.

It's not for nothing that the Iranians are known as rug merchants. They are.

After all, we didn't bring democracy to Germany in 1945; Hitler destroyed democracy there first.

Democracy doesn't just consist of holding elections.

Everybody is within reach of a television set. And so they're all politicized, and they're all stimulated, and then they have these desires, pleasures, hates, resentments, and so on, and they're reacting instantaneously.

The art of diplomacy is to take an opportunity and turn it into something.