I don't know what happens if they get bin Laden. I'm much more interested in what happens if they don't get bin Laden.

I don't know what happens if they get bin Laden. I'm much more interested in what happens if they don't get bin Laden.

Bin Laden always wanted to get rid of Mubarek and Ben Ali and Gaddafi and so on, claiming that they were all infidels working for America, and in fact, it was millions of ordinary people who peacefully, more or less - certainly in the case of Tunisia and Egypt - got rid of them.

When you have a crime against humanity that is so awesome in scale and death, it is more than permissible to look around and say, who recently has been declaring war on the United States? Of course, the compass points straight to bin Laden.

American power in the Middle East is collapsing. It doesn't need much more than a shove, and it will - and that's not going to be a good thing.

The word 'democracy' and the name of Assad do not blend very well in much of Syria.