I've decided that the political context is such that the only way reform will finally come about in the Russian military is that the deterioration goes beyond the point to which these old generals can stand up there and resist it.

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.

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

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

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.

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