Given the accelerating velocity of history, we should begin charting deliberately the next phase in its trajectory.

Americans don't learn about the world; they don't study world history, other than American history in a very one-sided fashion, and they don't study geography.

We should seek to cooperate with Europe, not to divide Europe to a fictitious new and a fictitious old.

We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States.

Given that a more authentic Iraqi political leadership is finally beginning to push aside the earlier US-hand-picked choices, the time is ripe to adopt a strategy for terminating US military presence in the country.

According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979.