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

I think fundamentalism is this radical attitude toward one's own identity and civilization as compared to other people's identities and cultures.

Obviously Pakistan and the U.S. are very different countries, but we have common geopolitical interests in preventing communist take over in Afghanistan and hence, now that Pakistan has a government that we can cooperate with, even though it is a military government, we are working together with them in order to promote our common interests. But obviously we also differ with Pakistan on a number of issues.

There will be associations and partnerships between some Muslim countries and some Christian countries. Those already exist. And they may shift as different regimes come and go and interests change.

America doesn't border on Muslim countries. European countries do and that seems to be a fundamental difference.

In the emerging world of ethnic conflict and civilizational clash, Western belief in the universality of Western culture suffers three problems: it is false; it is immoral; and it is dangerous.

U.S. foreign policy is in every area impacted by ethnic groups of one sort or another as well as economic groups and regional groups.