While conducting a conventional war in Iraq and Syria, ISIS has staged terrorist attacks on a global scale against the people from the countries who are fighting ISIS.

Baghdad for now appears to be drawing a line short of conducting terrorist attacks with conventional, or CBW (chemical and biological weapons) against the United States, ... Should Saddam conclude that a U.S.-led attack could no longer be deterred, he probably would become much less constrained in adopting terrorist actions.

I watched the Bush administration overreact to the Clinton administration, who believed they did too much nation building, sustaining other countries, and that's why we never put the commitment on Afghanistan and Iraq that should have been in there under their policy leadership.

Iraq is our war, our U.S. policy, our people (fighting) there ... it reflects the whole politics of what's going on in this country. We don't have a choice. We wouldn't be a significant news organization if we weren't reporting from there.

Even when he was in Iraq fighting a war, he was always smiling,

Terrorist attacks should be combated,