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

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.

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.

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

Military officers from different countries, when they meet each other, tend to sort of fall in love, become mutual admiration societies, at the expense of realities.

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

I have never belonged to a party. I don't have party affiliation.