A de facto civil war

not versed in international relations and not too much interested in them either.

I would say that we have courted disaster in Iraq , in North Korea , in Iran .

Katrina gives us no confidence, ... I am 10 times more worried about what happens to civil liberties after that attack.

If we leave precipitously, ... we will (have to) mobilize the nation, put 5 million men and women under arms and go back and take the Middle East within a decade,

If you are a military man, you know that you just don't do these sorts of things, ... they have to do what they have to do to get it.