We may be so eager to protect the right to dissent that we lose sight of the difference between dissent and subversion.

No operational commander should have to assign a soldier a task that could be done as well by a computer, a remote sensor, or an unmanned airplane.

Law-abiding citizens value privacy. Terrorists require invisibility. The two are not the same, and they should not be confused.

George Tenet has been the director of central intelligence since 1997, time enough to have changed the Agency's culture. He has failed. He should go.

Sometimes the things we have to do are objectionable in the eyes of others.

The programme of the British Labour Party under Neil Kinnock is so wildly irresponsible, so separate and apart from the historic NATO strategy, that I think a Labour government that stood by its present policies - and I rather doubt that they would - would, if it didn't destroy the Alliance, at least diminish its effective ability to do the task for which it was created.

We should force European governments to choose between Paris and Washington.