In critical ways, Obama has reversed not just Bush policy but every president's approach to the world since the Second World War, save for that of his soulmate Jimmy Carter.

This is the crucial time in the second term. Either Bush is going to become another Jimmy Carter and be seen as a failed president or somehow he needs to turn things around. He is standing on the edge of a precipice.

I actually collect old First and Second World War memorabilia.

We are a resilient country. We've been through a Civil War; we've been through two World Wars. We've been through a Great Depression; we even made it through Jimmy Carter! We will make it through the Obama years!

We tend to think about fascism in terms of the Second World War.

The U.N. system, born after the Second World War, collapsed. It's worthless.