The American people are pretty impressive in their ability to keep after something if they think it is doable.

It's hard to conceive that it would take more forces to provide stability in post-Saddam Iraq than it would take to conduct the war itself and secure the surrender of Saddam's security forces and his army. Hard to imagine.

I'm constantly asking for alternative views on most things that come to me.

That sense of what happened in Europe in World War II has shaped a lot of my views.

Poles understand perhaps better than anyone the consequences of making toothless warnings to brutal tyrants and terrorist regimes.

It's a very bad thing when people exterminate other people, and people persecute minorities.

China, in the future, is going to have even more nuclear capability than it has had in the past. I don't believe that they have anything to fear from the United States, and I frankly don't believe they do fear the United States.