Let's face it, the Obama administration was handed a pretty poor deal from the previous administration.

What could be better in al-Qaeda's mind than to have India and Pakistan going at each other? What more to further their aims?

Diplomacy is much more than just talking to your friends... You've got to talk to people who aren't our friends, and even people you dislike.

The CIA estimates that Iraq probably has a few hundred metric tons of chemical weapons agents, for mustard gas, sarin, and other deadly concoctions. This is addition to an extensive capacity to produce biological weapons, including anthrax and ricin, which is fatal within 24 to 36 hours of exposure.

The inspectors also found Iraq had developed effective means for dispersing these materials: unmanned aerial vehicles, spray devices, special munitions. We don't know where any of it is. And the last 60 days of new inspections have turned up no additional information that could allay any concerns about this military capability.

Once you don't smile on film, they say, 'Let's have that bloke who doesn't smile.'

According to the United Nations Special Commission [UNSCOM], which carried out inspections in Iraq for the better part of a decade, Iraq possesses some 25,000 liters of anthrax. This is, for the record, more than 5 million teaspoons of anthrax. And we have no idea where any of it is. Saddam Hussein has never accounted for one grain of it.