There is nothing inevitable about the tensions between our two countries or on the Korean peninsula or in the region,

These two countries are cheek-by-jowl,

I hope I'm wrong, but I am afraid that Iraq is going to turn out to be the greatest disaster in American foreign policy - worse than Vietnam, not in the number who died, but in terms of its unintended consequences and its reverberation throughout the region.

It has been something that the seven countries of the region have been working on.

Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies.

We are seeing a shift from well-organized, local groups supported by state sponsors to more far-flung and loosely structured webs of terror,