America's sanctions policy remains intact, and it will remain intact until it changes, if it does, and I'm not sure it will.

9/11 was a genuine trauma, and President George W. Bush rallied the country. I think the Iraq war was ill-considered, but there - it was done in the wake of a national trauma. And that the errors made under such circumstances are different than errors made in the cold.

The Civil War was fought, in a sense, over whether that sentence - all men are created equal - is to be taken literally. And the southerners in the 1850s argued that it was not.

Remember, the American grand strategy works when other countries feel secure. But it doesn't work if we acquiesce in the aggression of other countries.

The United States comes in 1945 and we basically blow the whistle.

Both the Bush people and [Barack] Obama people had no problem working with the holdovers. They weren`t out to get them.

Russia despises the West. And is doing what it can to weaken the West.