Information technology has brought people much closer together than ever before, providing a democratizing and mostly stabilizing influence.
Dan QuayleIraq at one time was actually a functioning government. It's a real state. Afghanistan is not Iraq. It's tribal. It's got a different - a number of different sects, never really had a solid government there running the country on any kind of a continuing basis. Well, to rebuild the nation of Afghanistan is going to be more difficult than rebuilding the nation of Iraq.
Dan Quayle