While people out there on the spot certainly have to be held accountable for what they've done personally, the chain of command responsibility for this strikes me as just as important and should be dealt with.

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

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.

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.

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

While people out there on the spot certainly have to be held accountable for what they've done personally, the chain of command responsibility for this strikes me as just as important and should be dealt with.

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