I hope your optimism plays out. But, you know, we wanted--we Americans love elections, and we had an election over there, and it didn't come out exactly the way we wanted it.
To me, trying to say, 'Well, we don't want any corruption in the country' is kind of like telling the Mafia...
I've got to tell you, I was--I have been stunned by the lack of progress in Afghanistan.
You just don't have the country itself having the willpower, the political willpower, to join us in that.
I'm really concerned about Afghanistan.
I'd like to see an end game, but I don't know who's smart enough to develop an end game for us in that country.
I think it is one of our central interests here to help Israel.
It seems to me that the Iranians lump the United States and Israel together as far as those two countries' edginess towa...
the best way to do that would not be the immediate use of force against Iran, but this two-track policy that we've been ...
I think that if these talks are successful and they can put a few people on each of those ships, and they took aggressiv...
I understand what you are saying, but of course none of those people have to go out and get elected either.