History is just littered with problems that were solved that were supposed to be impossible.

The use of force to liberate people is very different from the use of force to suppress or control them, or even to defeat them.

The truth is that for reasons that have a lot to do with the U.S. government bureaucracy, we settled on the one issue that everyone could agree on, which was weapons of mass destruction, as the core reason.

You cant win if youre chasing the wrong problem.

There has been a good deal of comment — some of it quite outlandish — about what our postwar requirements might be in Iraq. Some of the higher end predictions we have been hearing recently, such as the notion that it will take several hundred thousand U.S. troops to provide stability in post- Iraq, are wildly off the mark. It is 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 to secure the surrender of Saddam's security forces and his army — hard to imagine.

The only way you can be comfortable about Donald Trump's foreign policy, is to think he doesn't really mean anything he says.

I told my father I had to try political science for a year. He thought I was throwing my life away.