The internal affairs of other countries has a big impact on American interests.
I have always had a tendency to keep enlarging problems which I personally think is the way the world works... that seeing anything one dimensionally on the kinds of political, sort of big issues of human progress is going to be a distorted view of things, which is why over my career I have gone seemingly from subject to subject to subject.
It's a very bad thing when people exterminate other people, and people persecute minorities.
Public action should seek to expand the set of opportunities of those who have the least voice and fewest resources and capabilities.
I think all foreigners should stop interfering in the internal affairs of Iraq. Those who want to come and help are welcome. Those who come to interfere and destroy are not.
I think that all countries that participate in multilateral institutions see the institutions as a way of advancing what they view as their national interests and they see in many cases multi-lateral institution as the best way to do that.
I think, in the longer view of things, there is a very powerful pull in the direction of participatory government.
