Simply killing everyone who is already a terrorist today won't solve the problem.

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.

The Iraqi elections were an important first step.

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

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

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.

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