The lax multiculturalism that urges Americans to accept the unacceptable from their fellow citizens is one of this nation's greatest vulnerabilities in the war on terror.

Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people.

We may be so eager to protect the right to dissent that we lose sight of the difference between dissent and subversion.

The jealousy and resentment that animate the terrorists also affect many of our former cold war allies.

Support for Saddam, including within his military organization, will collapse after the first whiff of gunpowder.

We should force European governments to choose between Paris and Washington.

The programme of the British Labour Party under Neil Kinnock is so wildly irresponsible, so separate and apart from the historic NATO strategy, that I think a Labour government that stood by its present policies - and I rather doubt that they would - would, if it didn't destroy the Alliance, at least diminish its effective ability to do the task for which it was created.