In 1953, the United States played a significant role in orchestrating the overthrow of Iran's popular prime minister, Mohammed Mossadegh. The Eisenhower administration believed its actions were justified for strategic reasons, but the coup was clearly a setback for Iran's political development and it is easy to see now why many Iranians continue to resent this intervention by America in their internal affairs.

The process of education in the oldest profession in the world is like any other educational process, in that it requires time andeffort and patience; it can only be acquired by taking one step at a time, though the steps become accelerated after the first few.

Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies.

When we're trying to solve difficult national issues its sometimes necessary to talk to adversaries as well as friends. Historians have a word for this: diplomacy.

The cover-up, more than the initial wrongdoing, is what is most likely to bring you down.

My parents were of the generation who thought they were the children of a free Czechoslovakia, the only democracy in central Europe.

Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen.