A strong State Department to me means a corps of career officials who believe that their job is to advocate America's interests and who are trained in effective advocacy, not schooled in accommodation.

The way the Statute of Rome is written, responsibility for war crimes can be taken all the way up the chain of command. This is the sort of investigation that some people who live in Fairyland might like to undertake, but which bears no relationship at all to conditions in the real world.

I think some of this fascination with the 'Arab Spring' is just a grand experiment with Israel's survival.

It was right to overthrow Saddam Hussein. It was the regime itself that was a threat. I think in hindsight, what I would have done is turn authority back over to Iraqis much more quickly and say: "Your country, you figure out how to run it."

The European Union can now act like a major power, at least that is what the European Union tells us.

Well, I'm a libertarian conservative, so I believe in limited government/maximum individual freedom.

People say you favor assassination, what do you think war is? Except that it's assassination on a much larger scale, a much more horrific scale.