In the Gulf War, U.S. Marine Corps wheeled vehicles were killing Iraqi T-72 tanks.

The message of Vietnam is not that Americans will not take casualties; it is that the American people do not want the lives of their sons and daughters wasted.

I fear that we read of war, like women gossip, to enjoy the bitter misery of others.

If there is a single power the West underestimates, it is the power of collective hatred.

We have moved from an age in which government leaders sought to do what was best for the people to one in which the political leadership is convinced it knows what is best for the people, whether they like it or not.

Idealism has devolved into madness.

There is no lack of bravery in the ranks of our armed forces, but bureaucratic cowardice rules in our intelligence establishment (as well as at the higher levels of military command).