Information technology has politicized the world's population.

We can't make China a friend, but we can behave to make them an enemy.

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

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.

Much of what we know about mathematics and trade comes from the Arabs. Then came stagnation, and now they're the West's whipping boy. This is a problem that cannot be solved overnight, and certainly not militarily.

It is beyond dispute that Saddam Hussein is a menace.

The Russians are not going to do what we want them to do because we want them to do it.