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

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.

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.

If a caterpillar doesn't know its future has wings, it hardly experiences itself as land-bound.

I think most Americans believe that although it's better not to use military force if you can avoid it, that the world simply doesn't provide us the luxury of giving away military force as an important tool of foreign policy.

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

When you have a hammer, all problems start to look like nails.