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

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.

Yes, Israel's our ally. But, are the Palestinians our enemy? No, they are not.

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

Because national borders are eroding, because of the growth of non-state actors. It's a different kind of a world. We are tied down by a tiny little country - Iraq. It's amazing, given the disparity in military economic strength. It's a world where most of the big problems spill over national boundaries, and there are new kinds of actors and we're feeling our way as to how to deal with them.

First of all, I think the Saudis are deeply concerned about the collapse of negotiations between the Israelis and the Palestinians and the resumption of conflict.

Russia right now is searching for its soul. It's trying to figure out what it really is.