Everybody in the world is capable of democratic development. Some people in the world are unlucky enough to get stuck with really bad political leadership and with really bad political institutions.

Most of the people who were responsible for 9/11 are now in custody or have been killed. But there are others, and they plot and they plan, and they hope to pull it off again. And while we have to be right 100 percent of the time, they only have to be right once. So there's no way to overreact to that.

This is the democratic process at work, What you're seeing with this process is the Iraqi people embracing American-style democracy.

It takes courage to set priorities because doing so is an admission that American policy cannot be all things to all people - or rather to all interest groups