As the Palestinian leadership never seems to pay any penalty for its words, America's seriousness about the peace process is in doubt.

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

Oil policy, policy toward the United States, policy toward Iran, Bahrain, Yemen, very unlikely, I think, to see significant change. These policies were the policies that had a wide family consensus. The question I think would be if the king becomes sick, whether you have weak Saudi leadership in the Arab world and the Middle East rather than strong Saudi leadership, but I think the fundamental policies will continue, the ones we’re familiar with under King Abdullah.

Like all forms of collective security, multilateral sanctions require a unanimity rarely achieved in international politics.

The question was never whether the United States, E.U., NATO, Arab League, U.N. Security Council, and African Union could together using economic sanctions, diplomatic pressure, and military attacks to bring Qaddafi down. The question was always how much time, how much blood, and what damage to NATO.

During most of the Bush administration, human rights and democracy in Egypt were on the front burner.

The United States should help strengthen nongovernmental humanitarian agencies working in Sudan so that they can handle an increased flow of aid.