The Golden Straitjacket is the defining political-economic garment of this globalization era.... The tighter you wear it, the more gold it produces. - Thomas Friedman

The next six months in Iraq—which will determine the prospects for democracy-building there—are the most important six months in U.S. foreign policy in a long, long time.

I think we're in the end-game now…. I think we're in a six-month window here where it's going to become very clear and this is all going to pre-empt, I think, the next congressional election—that's my own feeling—let alone the presidential one.

What we're gonna find out, Bob, in the next six to nine months is whether we have liberated a country or uncorked a civil war.