It's hard to conceive that it would take more forces to provide stability in post-Saddam Iraq than it would take to conduct the war itself and secure….

It would be a huge mistake to abandon democracy promotion. Peaceful political change has been enormously successful in the past years in Eastern Euro….

There's a lot of money to pay for this ... the oil revenues of that country could bring between $50 and $100 billion over the course of the next two ….

To stay back from an intervention is not always a good solution..

One of the things that ultimately led me to leave mathematics and go into political science was thinking I could prevent nuclear war..

I mean, we're going to probably debate the Iraq war for at least as long as I'm alive..

The American people are pretty impressive in their ability to keep after something if they think it is doable..

Donald Trump seems to be unconcerned about the Russian aggression in Ukraine. By doing this he tells them that they can go ahead and do what they are….

History is just littered with problems that were solved that were supposed to be impossible..

Our security depends on having good relationships with our allies. Donald Trump mainly shows contempt for them..

I think Obama sees everything through one lens. Doing nothing in the face of the slaughter in Syria is not only shameful, it is unrealistic. This app….

The truth is that for reasons that have a lot to do with the U.S. government bureaucracy, we settled on the one issue that everyone could agree on, w….

There has been a good deal of comment — some of it quite outlandish — about what our postwar requirements might be in Iraq. Some of the higher end pr….

If a cat sits on a hot stove once, it will never sit on a cold one either..

That sense of what happened in Europe in World War II has shaped a lot of my views..

For one thing I tend not to see myself in various moulds that people fit me into..

I don't know of a single instance of these Arab freedom fighters holding up pictures of bin Laden. I know many instances of them displaying American ….

If the Arab world today looked like Tunisia, it would be a huge blow for the extreme ideologies. But Tunisia needs more support than it is getting, p….

Look, I think the notion that theres a dogma or doctrine of foreign policy that gives you a textbook recipe for how to react to all situations is rea….

The Bernie Sanders phenomenon shows that it's not confined to Republicans. There is a general sentiment that America is on the wrong track..

I'm constantly asking for alternative views on most things that come to me..