Bogging down large armies in historically complex, dangerous areas ends in disaster.

Assad must go. He's lost the legitimacy to govern.

I am fully supportive of 'open service' and committed to LGBT military families.

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.

Desperate men do desperate things when you take hope away. And that's where the Palestinians are today.

Things aren't getting better; they're getting worse. The White House is completely disconnected from reality. It's like they're just making it up as they go along. The reality is that we're losing in Iraq.

The Bush administration must understand that each American has a right to question our policies in Iraq and elsewhere, and should not be demonized or condemned for disagreeing with them. Suggesting that to challenge and criticize policy is undermining and hurting our troops is not democratic, nor what this country has stood for over 200 years.