It's perfectly natural to desire more troops when engaged in a military operation facing serious obstacles, and the more troops you have, probably, the [lower the] risk of causalities.

American power worldwide is at its historic zenith.

There is an element of paranoia in this inclination to view any serious attempt at a compromised peace as somehow directed against Israel.

I don't feel I was "born American," but my homeland was denied to me after the end of World War II and I craved something I could identify with.

The society will be dominated by an elite of persons free from traditional values who will have no doubt in fulfilling their objectives by means of purged techniques with which they will influence the behavior of people and will control and watch the society in all details. It will become possible to exert a practically permanent watch on each citizen of the world.

Regret what? That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap and you want me to regret it? The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border, I wrote to President Carter. We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war. Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire.

Nonsense! It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global Islam.