[The CIA has a] unique responsibility to steal secrets, ... That is absolutely timeless. |
a lot harder to keep track of than the dragon ever was. |
a real success for her. |
A single well-designed attack could send oil to well over $100 a barrel and devastate the world's economy. Oil dependence today creates serious and pressing dangers for the U.S. and other oil-importing nations. |
As we move toward a new Middle East, ... over the years and, I think, over the decades to come ... we will make a lot of people very nervous. |
For anyone who believes that this is purely a commercial undertaking, unrelated to a national strategy of domination of energy markets and of the western Pacific, I would suggest that that view is extraordinarily naive. |
France and Russia have oil companies and interests in Iraq. They should be told that if they are of assistance in moving Iraq toward decent government, we'll do the best we can to ensure that the new government and American companies work closely with them. If they throw in their lot with Saddam, it will be difficult to the point of impossible to persuade the new Iraqi government to work with them. |
had to do with coordination of intelligence in the United States. |
It has to be looked at in the context of whether this interim agreement is a valuable agreement and if releasing Pollard ... contributes to it. That's a presidential decision. That's why the president makes the big bucks. |
It's as if we were fighting with dragon for some 45 years and slew the dragon and then found ourselves in a jungle full of a number of poisonous snakes. |
It's the type of war that relies on suicide bombings and mass killings of civilians. We are no longer in the business of opposing enemy battle fleets. |
One of the generals, I think, said yesterday that over 90 percent of the attacks that occurred in the country, including those outside the Sunni triangle, are coming from within that Sunni triangle. It's there that I think they really have to win the war. |
Our response should be, 'good!' |
The problem is that after him, we don't know who we're going to get. |
The world -- and not just the United States -- has a problem with depending on the Middle East, and not just the Saudis, for such a large oil share, which creates a problem because of the instability in the area. |