I have never believed you go to war in Iraq, you go to war in Afghanistan, and believe that you can deal with those battlefields, those countries, in microcosms, or narrow channels.

We live in a world where there are dangerous people, there are bad people.

Institutions are imperfect. Governments surely are. People are.

Palestinians caged up like animals.

The Israeli people must be free to live in peace and security.

There has to be a reason and objective (to air strikes). What does it do to move the effort down the road for a political conversation?

If America is to succeed in responding to these 21st Century challenges, our political system cannot continue to bog down in the mire of partisan gamesmanship.