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I believe when the country feels threatened it is important that we are seen to be working together to find an appropriate structure for dealing with terrorists in our midst.

That's what really concerns me about the modern-day terrorists that we face is this global expansion.

While there's been much progress on terrorism, there's still much work to do and it is very important that the countries work together in order to address this threat together.

We need to make sure these Islamic terrorist organizations don't become mainstream. We're fighting an ideology as much as a group of radical terrorists.

We're still stymied by the old stand-off between those who wish to fight terrorism and resistance fighters.

When the new wave of terrorism came on the modern world, which is the late 1960s, early 1970s, I think we spent about a decade, the United States and our allies, trying to figure out how to deal with it.

The concept of the terrorists is to plunge our country into division.

I mean, the Taliban, my view is that they have been weakened.

The country has sorted itself ideologically into the two political parties, and those partisan attachments have hardened in recent years. It will take an extraordinary event and act of leadership to break this partisan divide. I thought 9/11 might provide such an opportunity, but it was not seized.

In the '70s, terrorism was much more serious, in that many more people got killed.