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.

Who is the guarantor, if there is one, of a more stable world? It's the United States.

I don't think the Chinese look out at the world and want to overturn the system.

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

The art of diplomacy is to take an opportunity and turn it into something.

I think America has to do more than be a broker now. Because both the Palestinians are weak and Israel is very weak.

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.