China's going to have a free press.... Oh, China's leaders don't know it yet, but they are being pushed straight in that direction. - Thomas Friedman

That will become clear in the next few months as we see just what kind of minority the Sunnis in Iraq intend to be. If they come around, a decent outcome in Iraq is still possible, and we should stay to help build it. If they won't, then we are wasting our time. We should arm the Shiites and Kurds and leave the Sunnis of Iraq to reap the wind.

Now we've entered Globalization 3.0, and it is shrinking the world from size small to a size tiny.

Well, I think that we're going to find out, Chris, in the next year to six months—probably sooner—whether a decent outcome is possible there, and I think we're going to have to just let this play out.