These are all elements, but the main thing we can do in the Middle East is encourage the reformist elements.

The Crown Prince has said he needs to broaden political participation in the governing of Saudi Arabia.

We went into Iraq because Iraq posed a threat to the stability of the region and was engaged in the process of trying to develop weapons of mass destruction and had links to terrorists.

Look at what the Omar of Qatar is doing, for example - the King of Morocco, Jordan, Bahrain. There are reform movements taking place, efforts to broaden the political participation of the populations of the region.

I wouldn't even know - and I spent three years in the CIA - I wouldn't even know how you'd start a covert action program in a place like Iran. It would be extraordinarily difficult.

Intelligence is not a science.

These are all elements, but the main thing we can do in the Middle East is encourage the reformist elements.