The Dell Theory Of Conflict

Every Sport Needs Its Temple, Its Cathedral.

I Think No Country Is Going To Be Immune From The Arab Awakening Because The Arab Awakening Is Driven By Deep Human Longing For Dignity, For Justice And For Freedom. I Think That Applies To Young People In Saudi Arabia As Much As To Young People In Egypt, Tunisia, Or Yemen, Or Libya, Or Syria. If I Were In Saudi Arabia, I Would Be Getting Ahead Of This And Looking For Ways To Appreciate Those Aspirations And Align My Country With Them.

There Is Definitely Global Warming, And Man Is Definitely Contributing To It. Go Out To, Say, Montana And Talk To Some Pretty Conservative People, Hunters And Fishermen. They Know That In The Trout Stream They Fished When They Were Growing Up, The Trout Are Stressed Because The Water Temperature Is Going Up. They Know The Hunting Season Has Been Delayed Because The Snows Are Coming Later, And Therefore The Elk Aren't Coming Down From The Mountains.

I Think That The Drama Of People Rising Up Demanding Their Own Freedom Is One That Resonates Very Deeply With America. I Think That President Barack Obama Has Tried And Would Like To Find A Way To Relate To The Arab Spring, But I Think He Also Wants To Be, Rightly, Very Careful That We Don't Take It Over. It Is Very Important That They Own This. He Is Trying To Influence It This Way But Without, "we're So Never Going To Go To The Extreme Of Iraq And Putting Boots On The Ground Again."

I Was In Bangalore, India, The Silicon Valley Of India, When I Realized That The World Was Flat.