My experience is that if the military didn't want to use force and was confronted with a president that did, the military would come back with what I would call the 'bomb Moscow' scenario. They would say it had to be done with conditions that were so extreme, you obviously wouldn't do it.

The civilized world has a common stake in defeating the terrorists.

I don't know how you define 'neoconservatism,' but I think it's associated with trying to spread open political systems and democracy.

He who walks in the middle of the road gets hit from both sides.

A strong foundation exists for immediate military action against Saddam Hussein and for a multilateral effort to rebuild Iraq after he is gone.

Oh, you know. I am secretary of state. My trips aren't successful. I just talk to people.

It was an attempt to stick the Congress's finger in King Hussein's eye.