I Started Out As A Cold Warrior,

I'm The Only American Alive Or Dead Who Presided Unhappily Over The Removal Of A Vice President And A President.

Then Came The Hostage Crisis During Which Carter Did Nothing To Rattle The Ayatollahs Who Hung Tough Until Ronald Reagan Was Inaugurated, When They Suddenly Backed Down.

I Think That Perhaps The Classic Propagandists Of The - In The Second World War Was Winston Churchill. He Was Extremely Skilled And Adept At It.

We Didn't Do Anything Wrong, But Among The Lessons Learned, Given The Magnitude Of The Problems We Now Face In Afghanistan, A Major U.s. Force On The Ground Would Convince The World We Were In For The Long-haul Recovery Of A Country Devastated By 21 Years Of Warfare.

You Have To Look At The History Of The Middle East In Particular. It Has Been One Of Failure And Frustration, Of Feudalism And Tribalism.