I'm afraid that the United States is more isolated today than at any other time in my memory.

We must find out where the roots of terrorism lie.

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.

Europeans are familiar with terrorism and violence. We have not experienced a true conflict on our soil in a hundred years, and especially not one that involved 3,000 dead.

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

Many Sunnis, who are still stuck in the Saddam era mindset and believe Iraq belongs to them, are trying to prevent a new country from developing at all.

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