[Bush can claim one triumph: We have suffered no further attack on U.S. soil since 9/11 (not counting the unsolved anthrax attacks later that fall). Casualties are far fewer, too, than in any other major war in U.S. history since the Revolution.] I do think there's been progress in some areas, ... In the last four years, for example, I think the world has become a tougher place for terrorists to operate in. |
Given [the] potential high costs [of an attack], Washington should be searching harder for a diplomatic alternative, one that entails direct US talks with Iran beyond the narrow dialogue announced on Iraq. |
I do think there's been progress in some areas. In the last four years, for example, I think the world has become a tougher place for terrorists to operate in. |
I wish we had never gotten to the point we are now. We ought to make this work. We have got to confront the opponents before us. |
Iraq was at core a war of choice, and extraordinarily expensive by every measure - human life, impact on our military, dollars, diplomatically. |
No matter who is president of Indonesia from August, Jakarta will have to come to grips with the problems on its periphery as political issues, not just as security problems, |
Save your breath. The president has already made up his mind. |
The biggest thing these appointments tell you about the direction of U.S. foreign policy is that there is no direction. |
The most dangerous delusion is that a conflict would be either small or quick. |
The upper hand is with those who are pushing regime change rather than those who are advocating more diplomacy. |
There's a daisy chain that stems from the fact that no weapons of mass destruction have been found. |
To the neorealist, |
We cannot sustain this degree of guns, this amount of butter and this level of taxes. |