We do not need to divide America over who served and how. I have personally always believed that many served in many different ways.

America must always be the world's paramount military power. But we can magnify our power through alliances.

As I have said for two years now, when Osama Bin Laden and al-Qaeda were cornered in the mountains of Tora Bora, it was wrong to outsource the job of capturing them to Afghan warlords who a week earlier were fighting against us.

I mean does Israel want a third Intifada?

Think about this: terrorism, epidemics, poverty, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction-all challenges that know no borders-the reality is that climate change ranks right up there with every single one of them.

Mitt Romney says he believes in America and that he will restore American exceptionalism. I have news for him, we already have an exceptional American as president and we believe in Barack Obama.

You can't play sports without losing sometimes and, in losing, you learn something about grace and how to act under pressure.