I think Barack Obama has the overall right strategy and he's been right to resist bringing in massive numbers of American troops. The Iraqis would love to have Americans die for Iraq and the Syrians would love to have Americans die for Syria.

The legacy of the Armenian Genocide is woven into the fabric of America.

But it is equally incontrovertible that if our intelligence gathering process is seriously flawed, we had better find out and find out fast if we are to avoid another Sept. 11.

We need Trump to lead the liberal democratic order around the world. No other nation can do that the way we can, and it's going to be very hard for Congress to do it over his opposition.

And in this community, as in all others, the Golden Rule still applies - we must be act toward other nations as we would have them act towards America.

Unquestionably, the world is better off without Saddam.

But even race-neutral policies and recruitment efforts designed to achieve greater diversity are, in the end, not race neutral.