I'm not convinced that there's consensus in the United States. Do you think the Iraq war has consensus? Does the Afghan war have consensus? Surely not. I wish we had consensus. I think it is a great and good thing when domestic politics ends at the waterline and that when you go abroad, you have a consensus on what the state should be doing. It exists, perhaps, more so in the U.S. than it does here. But then, we have less influence. We have less power.
On May 13th, 2010. See this statement in context.