I like globalization; I want to say it works, but it is hard to say that when six hundred million people are slipping backwards.

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

After a regime is removed, however, it is dangerous to leave a security vacuum.

People change their habits. I know Americans who don't go to Paris because they think it is too dangerous.

I think it's a mistake to rely too much on any one economic factor. It's why investors try to spread their portfolio round.

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 absence of Saddam is a huge weight off the Arab world.