The problem is that the things demanded by an empire, which is staying power, ruthlessness, the ability and the willingness to use its power around t….

I think that the first point to be made is there is no "solution" in Afghanistan. Solution I put in quotes. We live in an op-ed culture, which is to ….

Torture takes over someone's nervous system. Torture takes over what they feel. Torture takes over and penetrates into their mind and into their body….

What is evil? What is - where does the evil come from that lies behind someone like Saddam Hussein, or Radovan Karadzic, or General Claude Raymond in….

One is the goals of 9/11 itself, of that attack was to draw the United States into Afghanistan to fight a counterinsurgency as the Soviets had done b….

I think if you're looking for a pure expression of evil, torture is pretty - is a pretty good candidate..

I would not like to be in President Obama's position in making choices on Afghanistan..

How do you have a democratic empire, how do you have an imperial foreign policy built on a democracy polity. It's like some sort of strange mythical ….