I Think Above All, What We Need

It Is Beyond Dispute That Saddam Hussein Is A Menace.

After The '30s, We Said, "no More Munichs." And It Got Us In A Lot Of Problems. Then We Said, "no More Vietnams." Now If We Say, "no More Iraqs," The Next One Won't Be An Iraq. It Will Be Something Different. You Can't Learn Lessons.

Perhaps The Most Troubling Area In The World Goes From The Balkans Through The Middle East And In Central Asia.

I Believe The Chinese Are Gradually Realizing That They're Dependent On The System That, As They Run Out Of Energy, For Example, They Have To Reach Out To Foreign Sources For Energy, For Raw Materials. They Have To Reach Out To The World For Markets. They Have To Export. They Have To Maintain Full Employment. They've Got A Terrible Population Problem. So They Need A Stable World, In A Way.

Europeans Are Familiar With Terrorism And Violence. We Have Not Experienced A True Conflict On Our Soil In A Hundred Years, And Especially Not One That Involved 3,000 Dead.