This picture is a tremendously important part of the self-image of George W. Bush, of Dick Cheney (from Wyoming, another frontier state) and indeed of their administration as a whole, and it has shaped that administration's aggressiveness in international affairs.

If somebody like me, an absolute down-the-line centrist on this issue--my position on Israel/Palestine is identical to that of the Blair government--has so much difficulty publishing, it's a sign of how extremely limited and ethically rotten the media debate is in this country.

A military threat would have been very credible after Afghanistan. But after Iraq, no one thinks they could invade and occupy Iran.

I am quite convinced that if (U.S. President Dwight) Eisenhower were to come back today he would have written a review in support of my book,

the last of the Eisenhower Republicans.

This feeling is extremely widespread in Western Europe, ... and is one reason why there are at heart considerable doubts about just how these countries are going to be integrated. It's obviously a very bad thing....