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Although this crisis in some ways started in the United States, it is a global crisis. We bear a substantial share of the responsibility for what has happened, but factors that made the crisis so acute and so difficult to contain lie in a broader set of global forces that built up in the years before the start of our current troubles.

War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation.

Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell, no!

I suspect that war will become obsolete only when something worse supercedes it.

A long-term crisis, after a certain point, no longer seems like a crisis. It seems like the way things are.

Believe me, as one who has seen a number of international crises firsthand, they cannot be handled without an understanding of history.

The Second World War is and was constantly being drudged up by Blair and Bush to rationalize the invasion of Iraq.

The present danger which this country faces is at least as great as the danger which we faced during the war with Germany and Japan. Briefly stated, it is the very real danger that this country, as we know it, may cease to exist.

The Cold War is over but Cold War thinking survives.

We are near, very near, to an end to the eurozone crisis... The worst - in the sense of the fear of the eurozone breaking up - is over. But the best isn't there yet.