In World War II in Germany, we had a ration for one U.S. soldier, or one allied soldier for every twenty inhabitants. The ratio in Iraq is about one for a hundred and sixty.

In reality, I don't think that many of the policies we've attempted to apply to deal with it are going to have any serious effect.

Second, recent polls over there show that the majority of Iraqis want us to leave precipitously.

Once we destroyed the Saddam regime, we knew there was going to be a civil war.

The whole notion of land property rights in the Arab world is different from that in Europe.

Acts of terror have never brought down liberal democracies. Acts of parliament have closed a few.

Firing off 1,000 or 500 or 2,000 nuclear warheads on a few minutes' consideration has always struck me as an absurd way to go to war.