What's the purpose of NATO? Well actually we have an official answer. It isn't publicized much, but a couple of years ago, the secretary-general of NATO made a formal statement explaining the purpose of NATO in the post-Cold War world is to control global energy systems, pipelines, and sea lanes. That means it's a global system and of course he didn't say it, it's an intervention force under US command, as we've seen in case after case. So that's NATO.

The whole infrastructure of air travel was, and is, part of government policy. It is not a natural development of a free economic system - at least not in the way that is claimed. The same is true of the roads, of course.

People who don't accept that doctrinal system, they may try to survive in the media, but they are unlikely to.

A number of analysts have observed that although bin Laden was finally killed, he won some major successes in his war against the U.S.

United States has comparative advantage in military force. It tends to react to anything at first with military force, that's what it's good at. And I think they overdid it. There was more military force than was necessary.

I don't see much use in general slogans. Sometimes it is worth resisting evil with lesser evil, very commonly in fact.

If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.