We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation.
Clearly the Secretary of Defense, my boss, would like nothing better than to get Osama bin Laden and to get... to ensure the complete defeat of al-Qaida, because we know that al-Qaida is planning operations against the United States even as we speak here.
It's also natural in that part of the world to blame what people view as the... as the most important authority in the region, and that currently is the United States of America.