What is happening? The war was over, wasn’t it?

If our history with Saddam has taught us anything, it has taught us that the only thing that he responds to is the use of force.

[Kenneth Pollack of National Defense University said Saddam Hussein felt he had not lost anything and perhaps gained something from previous crises.] In either of those circumstances, … it’s worth something to him to try...

It’s a way of demonstrating to the world that you can’t forget about Iraq, … That Iraq will not allow itself to be forgotten, that Iraq will never allow the sanctions and the no-fly zones...

Either the new Iraqi government with U.S. backing starts to fix Iraq’s problems or continued failures will propel Iraqis in to the arms of the militias, likely generating a full-blown civil war.

This is a paranoid regime. Even if the development of the Caucasus airfields ” even if it weren’t about them, they would assume it was about them. So that in and of itself will likely...

The theory that democracy is the antidote to insurgency gets disproved on the ground every day.

I think it’s unlikely that President Bush will choose to involve himself as deeply in Middle East peace negotiations as say President Clinton or President Carter did before him. When President Bush came to office...

Having a good constitution is far more important than having an immediate constitution.

I think it’s clear Iran is trying to acquire all aspects of the fuel cycle, there is evidence they are considering doing some research on weapons but no one knows if they are going to...

I can’t say for certain he was a war criminal, but I’d be willing to bet a year’s salary he was. A horrible person, it’s great to get him off the streets.

As long as the EU and the U.S. are serious about Iran, the Russians will be serious too.

Iran is at least five years away from having a working nuclear weapon.