Obviously the administration intends to publicize all the weapons of mass destruction U.S. forces find - and there will be plenty.

Based on all criteria - military power, economic influence, cultural dominance - America remains number one, even though other, new players are increasingly challenging it in that role.

It is true that I have known Straussians almost all my life. And the one thing I was taught about them from the earliest age is that they are wrong.

I left Russia in 1993 optimistic that democracy had taken hold despite the obstacles.

When it comes to setting national priorities, determining threats, defining challenges, and fashioning and implementing foreign and defense policies, the United States and Europe have parted ways.

Americans are from Mars, Europeans are from Venus: they agree on little and understand each other less and less.

Foreign policy is like hitting a baseball: if you fail 70 percent of the time, you go to the Hall of Fame.