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.

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

Putin is behaving in a very dangerous way. And Donald Trump sounds as though he would simply sit back and allow that to go on. I worry about where that would end up.

There's a lot of money to pay for this ... the oil revenues of that country could bring between $50 and $100 billion over the course of the next two or three years...We're dealing with a country that can really finance its own reconstruction, and relatively soon.

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

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

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