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've met quite a few dictators up close and personal in my life.

People seem to forget that Saddam was the only leader in the world who praised the attacks of 9/11 as a good thing.

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

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 Western alliance should have supported the Sunni opposition against the Assad regime from the beginning. As far as Iraq is concerned, if it had stayed stable the way it was in 2008, IS would not have been able to expand in Iraq the way they did. The mistake was that Barack Obama withdrew the armed forces from Iraq too fast.