I Am All In Favour Of Democracy

People Say You Favor Assassination, What Do You Think War Is? Except That It's Assassination On A Much Larger Scale, A Much More Horrific Scale.

Just As The Security Council Was Largely Irrelevant To The Great Struggle Of The Last Half Of The Twentieth Century - Freedom Against Communism - So Too It Is Largely On The Sidelines In Our Contemporary Struggles Against International Terrorism And The Proliferation Of Weapons Of Mass Destruction.

It Was Right To Overthrow Saddam Hussein. It Was The Regime Itself That Was A Threat. I Think In Hindsight, What I Would Have Done Is Turn Authority Back Over To Iraqis Much More Quickly And Say: "your Country, You Figure Out How To Run It."

By Creating A Prosecutor Who Is Overseen Over By A Court, They Are Melding Executive And Judicial Power In A Way That Can Lead To Terrible Abuses - As The Founders Of America Understood Full Well. It's Why They Created A System Of Separated Powers - To Set Up A Constitutional Mechanism That Would Enhance Freedom, By Making Sure That No One's Accumulation Of Power Could Predominate Over [that Of] Others.

People Don't Like To Talk About Victory And Defeat Anymore.