While Argentina, Brazil, and Chile - what in textbooks used to be called the ABC countries - seem settled into democratic politics and free market economics, the Andean countries are in disarray.

Pundits are used to analyzing the gap between what our ideals suggest and what our security interests require.

Libya as a country is a relatively new concept. The period of Libya as a modern nation really starts after World War II.

I never said I had no idea about most of the things you said I said I had no idea about.

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.

The story of the Jews in the Bible is replete with incidents of their ingratitude to God for His gifts to them: incidents that just as repeatedly merit and receive punishment.

There are no Muslim ghettos in the U.S.