As even a democracy like the United States has shown, waging war can benefit a leader in several ways: it can rally citizens around the flag, it can distract them from bleak economic times, and it can enrich a country's elites.

We have an interest in combating tactics in war that are abhorrent and that only fuel terrorism because they incite people on the ground.

If you represent everyone, in some ways you represent no one. You're un-owned.

My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.

When I wake up in the middle of the night when I hear one of my kids coughing or crying, I think about Syria.

Every working mother struggles with the BlackBerry, knowing the boss can call.

I think Obama is right when he talks about the rule of law as a cornerstone of what the United States should stand for.