National sovereignty is an obligation as well as an entitlement. A government that will not perform the role of a government forfeits the rights of a government.

Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people.

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.

Acknowledge that a more closely integrated Europe is no longer an unqualified American interest.

Right now, American law bars the admission of aliens suspected of terrorist activity - but not of terrorist sympathies.

In any event, the problem in Iran is much bigger than weapons. The problem is the terrorist regime that seeks the weapons. The regime must go.

Support for Saddam, including within his military organization, will collapse after the first whiff of gunpowder.