The U.S. has and still is cooperating with various military dictatorships around the world. Obviously we would prefer to see them democratized, but we are doing it because we have national interests, whether it's working with Pakistan on Afghanistan or whatever.

Fundamentalist tendencies and movements existed, so far as I know, in all societies and civilizations.

Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods.

As far as ideology or political beliefs are concerned, countries are very different.

The core of the American set of beliefs has remained pretty constant.

And the big question for the West, of course, and to the Europeans is, what other countries, which were formerly part of the Soviet bloc, should be incorporated into western institutions?

When you have increased migration of peoples and ethnic and religious minorities, you develop a set of rules and language the larger society can accept and the minority community can accept.