These days, it takes only seconds - seconds - for a picture, a photo, to suddenly become an international headline.

I mean, the Taliban, my view is that they have been weakened.

Rather than undermining the Palestinian Authority, it is in Israel's interests to strengthen it by... continuing to transfer Palestinian tax revenues and pursuing other avenues of cooperation.

I suddenly realized at the CIA that I had to make life-and-death decisions about people.

These days, it takes only seconds - seconds - for a picture, a photo, to suddenly become an international headline.

If you're a terrorist, you're a terrorist.

After every major conflict - World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the fall of the Soviet Union - what happened was that we ultimately hollowed out the force, largely by doing deep across-the-board cuts.