The Art Of Diplomacy Is To Take

Osama Bin Laden Is Going After Us To Get Us Out Of The Region, So He Can Deal With The Regimes That He Sees In The Region, Or Replace Them With Purists.

Many Sunnis, Who Are Still Stuck In The Saddam Era Mindset And Believe Iraq Belongs To Them, Are Trying To Prevent A New Country From Developing At All.

To Sum Up, The Position We Took Was That Since We Didn't Know The Internal Situation In Iraq Nor Saddam Hussein, That Our Best Bet Was To Take Counsel From The People Who Did Know Him And Who Did Deal With Him.

Because National Borders Are Eroding, Because Of The Growth Of Non-state Actors. It's A Different Kind Of A World. We Are Tied Down By A Tiny Little Country - Iraq. It's Amazing, Given The Disparity In Military Economic Strength. It's A World Where Most Of The Big Problems Spill Over National Boundaries, And There Are New Kinds Of Actors And We're Feeling Our Way As To How To Deal With Them.

The Russians Are Not Going To Do What We Want Them To Do Because We Want Them To Do It.