So be it. God created profoundly fallible creatures on this earth, and human history is mostly the story of error and accident.

Fighting back against Iran is difficult and costly. No American president from Carter to Obama has been willing to take it on.

It's hard not to be in favor of taking down monsters.

The 'Axis of Evil' was - and is - very real, as the tyrants of Iran, Iraq, and North Korea knew full well.

The great American work ethic has not been lost, but it has been eroded by years of dumb government policies that Mr. Trump and Congress can correct.

The Syrians lost out because they happened to have their revolution during an election cycle in America, France, and bizarrely, some kind of election cycle in Russia. Obama wasn't going to be seen to commit anything to Syria, that would be political suicide, but he's also got a Nobel Peace Prize sitting on his mantelpiece.

America's support for human rights and democracy is our noblest export to the world.

I suppose, being in politics, it wasn't a job - it was almost a calling. It dominated my life, so I do think that probably a lot of people around me have paid quite a big price for that.