Wherever you have weakening states and turmoil, you will have a fertile petri dish for terrorism.

We talk a lot about individual rights, but in fact Americans are very willing to give up our individual rights if it means our property values will be protected, and so on.

Wherever you have weakening states and turmoil, you will have a fertile petri dish for terrorism.

The United States is not overdeployed or overextended with deployments in 150 countries on any given year. On any given week we have about 65 deployments.

What does the earth look like in the places where people commit atrocities? Is there a bad smell, a genius loci, something about the landscape that might incriminate?

Travel is like a good challenging book: It demands presentness-the ability to live completely in the moment.

It is a cliche these days to observe that the United States now possesses a global empire - different from Britain's and Rome's but an empire nonetheless.