No, Most Of Our Political Elite Has

When You Study History And Look At Every Civilization That Has Grown Up And Died Off, They All Leave One Remnant: A Major Sports Colosseum At The Heart Of Their Capital. Our Fate Can Be Different; But Only If We Start Doing Things Differently.

Iraq Today Does Have A Chance To Shape Its Own Future. They May Not Do That, Or This Generation May Not Do That. But Maybe The Next One Will, I Don't Know. They May Try And Fail, And Stumble, Get Up And Fall Back.

Iraq May Still Have A Decent Outcome...but Even If It Becomes Switzerland, We Overpaid For It.

America Was The Funder Of Petro-dictatorships. We Treated All These Countries As Basically Big, Large Gas Stations: Libya Station, Iraq Station, Iran Station, Egypt Station, Syria Station, And All We Asked Of Them Were Three Things: Keep Your Palms Open, Your Prices Low And Don't Bother Israel Too Much, And You Can Do Whatever You Want To Your Own People.

I Don't Think A Monarchy Led By 75- And 80-year-old Men [saudi Arabia] In Today's Modern World Is Really Sustainable.