Our security depends on having good relationships with our allies. Donald Trump mainly shows contempt for them.

I don't know of a single instance of these Arab freedom fighters holding up pictures of bin Laden. I know many instances of them displaying American flags in Benghazi or painting 'Facebook' on their foreheads in Cairo. The idea of freedom . . . is absolutely contradictory to what bin Laden stood for, which was . . . taking Muslims back to some medieval theocracy and encouraging people to die not for freedom but to go to paradise and to kill innocent people along the way. The contrast is really striking.

NATO is still the most remarkable alliance in history. It stuck together through 40 years of Cold War, and it then joined together to fight in Afghanistan. In the 1980s, I would not have thought this was going to be possible.

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

For one thing I tend not to see myself in various moulds that people fit me into.

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.

Sometimes corruption is slowed by shedding light into what was previously shadowed.