If a cat sits on a hot stove once, it will never sit on a cold one either.

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

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.

If a cat sits on a hot stove once, it will never sit on a cold one either.

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

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.

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