Direct Threats Require Decisive Action.

I Can't Think Of A Time When We've Had A Region Emerge As Suddenly To Become As Strategically Significant As The Caspian.

I Think We May Well Have Some Kind Of Presence There Over A Period Of Time... The Level Of Activity That We See Today From A Military Standpoint, I Think, Will Clearly Decline. I Think They're In The Last Throes, If You Will, Of The Insurgency.

Rarely Has A U.s. President Been So Wrong About So Much At The Expense Of So Many.

From Our Perspective, Trying To Deal With This Continuing Campaign Of Terror, If You Will, The War On Terror That We're Engaged In, This Is A Continuing Enterprise. The People That Were Involved In Some Of Those Activities Before 9/11 Are Still Out There.

Let Us Rid Ourselves Of The Fiction That Low Oil Prices Are Somehow Good For The United States.