You know as well as I do that counterinsurgency is a very nuanced type of military operation.

The power to prevent violence is a power that no police force seems to have anywhere in the United States.

As far as Zarqawi is concerned, there is a network of extremists; it's not just Zarqawi.

Well, the hardest thing to do, as we know from our own experience on 9/11 is protect everything all the time.

And so I think that if the person has the funds, the network, and the equipment to do this, and also the experience, which is the key factor, then they can be quite deadly.

The United States is the most powerful nation on Earth and it just can't walk away from the Middle East and central Asia and the Horn of Africa.

Undoubtedly, there are members of the former regime that are cooperating in some fashion and then there are extremists that are within Iraq that are cooperating with them.