The ultimate goal is to change Syria's behaviour on a variety of issues - on its interference in Lebanese internal affairs, on its support for Palestinian terrorist groups that oppose the Palestinian Authority, on, most importantly, acting as a land bridge between Iran and Hezbollah, where Hezbollah gets all its arms.

First impressions matter. Experts say we size up new people in somewhere between 30 seconds and two minutes.

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

Persecution of Christians is growing around the world, and Congress needs to pay more attention to it.

The way for the Palestinians to get a state is to go ahead and build it.

Today's status symbol is the Palm Pilot; tomorrow's is not having one, because you have a whole staff keeping track of you. It's like a winter coat in Washington: The ultimate status symbol isn't cashmere, it's no coat at all on the snowiest day of the year - because that means you have a car and driver waiting for you, so why do you need a coat?

There isn't any way for the people of Nicaragua to find out what's going on in Nicaragua.