It Is Always An Eerie Experience To

After The Allied Victory Of 1918, At The End Of My Father's War, The Victors Divided Up The Lands Of Their Former Enemies. In The Space Of Just Seventeen Months, They Created The Borders Of Northern Ireland, Yugoslavia And Most Of The Middle East. And I Have Spent My Entire Career — In Belfast And Sarajevo, In Beirut And Baghdad — Watching The People Within Those Borders Burn.

The Word 'democracy' And The Name Of Assad Do Not Blend Very Well In Much Of Syria.

Individuals In Various Countries Like Egypt And Saudi Arabia Listen To The Tapes Of Bin Laden. They Gather In Groups Of Four Or Five. They Feel They Want To Do Something To Express Their Support For What They've Heard. The Idea That They Were Taking Orders Is A Particularly Western Idea.

Bin Laden Was Constantly Revolving In His Mind The Fact That He Had Got Rid Of The Russians; Therefore, The Americans Can Be Got Rid Of, Too. And Where Better Than In The Country Where He Knows How To Fight?

Tanks Come In Two Forms: The Dangerous, Deadly Kind And The "liberating" Kind.