No one is talking about occupying Iraq for five to ten years.

Even now, the irony that so non-intellectual a man should choose to engage the Soviet Union on the battlefield of ideas has eluded most commentators and historians.

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

Iraq is a very wealthy country. Enormous oil reserves. They can finance, largely finance the reconstruction of their own country. And I have no doubt that they will.

Acknowledge that a more closely integrated Europe is no longer an unqualified American interest.

Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces.

Sometimes the things we have to do are objectionable in the eyes of others.