America has maintained a prohibition on negotiating with terrorists for good reason.

China has been trading technology and systems with Iraq, Iran, Syria, Libya, Pakistan, North Korea now for years and years. Indigenously? No they're not going to have one. But they're getting dangerously close to having one. We can all have reason to suspect. Why would they not if they're trading with these countries?

America has maintained a prohibition on negotiating with terrorists for good reason.

Much of the debate over global warming is predicated on fear, rather than science.

People are, well, only human. We know that. The rule of law is borne out in identifying, condemning, and punishing those who violate the standards on which we all agree. This is exactly what we do in America.

I have to say when we talk about the treatment of these prisoners that I would guess that these prisoners wake up every morning thanking Allah that Saddam Hussein is not in charge of these prisons.

A country's adhering to the rule of law does not mean that its citizens will not do bad things.