When freedom of the press is threatened, the United States should be leading efforts to protect it.

The intersection of religion and world politics has often been a bloody crossroads.

A great nation like the United States has many and varied interests, and we need both to do business with tyrants and to engage constantly in multilateral diplomacy.

Mass killing has very clearly not been eliminated, nor has the 'international community' developed a response that will avert it or bring it to a quick end.

The Obama administration rarely demonstrated the ability to shift gears and change policy in its first year. Even in the face of historic events such as the continuing demonstrations against Iran's regime, it stuck devotedly to prior plans.

There are no Muslim ghettos in the U.S.

There are examples of fraternal dictatorships, or one, anyway: the passing of power from Fidel to Raul Castro.