It's not for nothing that the Iranians are known as rug merchants. They are.
We can't make China a friend, but we can behave to make them an enemy.
Since the days of Peter the Great, Russians have been maybe Europeans who didn't share in the enlightenment and the reformation, or are they Mongol Asians with the European veneer. And they've gone back and forth.
Progress is only possible if the United States and its allies work together.
It is beyond dispute that Saddam Hussein is a menace.
America wants to work with friends, with allies, with people of good will, to make this a better world.