Increasingly, the state system has been eroding. Terrorists have exploited this weakness by burrowing into the state system in order to attack it.

Open political and economic systems have been gaining ground and there's a good reason for it. They work better.

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

We have struggled with terrorism for a long time. In the Reagan administration, I was a hawk on the subject. I said terrorism is a big problem, a different problem, and we have to take forceful action against it. Fortunately, Ronald Reagan agreed with me, but not many others did.

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.

If they are too big to fail, make them smaller.

There is no prospect that the United States will say to Israel, 'You do such and such and we'll not support you in your security.