Stephen J. Hadley: “An American withdrawal or stepping back right now would be a prescription for fast failure and chaos that would envelope…”

President Bush early on in his administration said that the U.S. policy of trying to purchase stability at the price of supporting these authoritarian regimes was a bad bargain; that authoritarian regimes are not stable, and they needed to…

I think the main thing that we have to think about is how to explain to the American people that our safety and security depends on a different--that we can't wall ourselves off from things.

It is important both as a symbol of a national commitment to deal with this problem, but it is also important to rebalance a little bit this relationship between the Congress and the President.

We need to expose that, and then we need to push back by exporting truth.