Another longstanding foreign policy flaw is the degree to which special interests dictate the way in which the "national interest" as a whole is defined and pursued.... America's important historic relationship with Israel has often led foreign policy decision-makers to defer reflexively to Israeli security assessments, and to replicate Israeli tactics, which, as the war in Lebanon last summer demonstrated, can turn out to be counter-productive.

Historical hypocrites have themselves carried out the very human rights abuses that they suddenly decide warrant intervention elsewhere.

It is easy to get used to the morning news, habituated. But don't. The morning news is yours to alter.

I believe the United States is the greatest country on Earth. I really do.

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

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

What is most needed in Darfur is an international peacekeeping and protection presence, and this is what the Sudanese government most wants to avoid.