To say that you now trust the Russian military command and control system because some Russian general told you from the bottom of his heart that's the case, strikes me as most unrealistic.

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

The presidents I served under don't have anything to do with my politics.

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

As many critics have pointed, out, terrorism is not an enemy. It is a tactic. Because the United States itself has a long record of supporting terrorists and using terrorist tactics, the slogans of today's war on terrorism merely makes the United States look hypocritical to the rest of the world.

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

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.