Showing strength is different than showing muscle.

I see no constitutional problems with the identification, staving off and defusing of outside threats.

Service disruptions have to be avoided or at least resolved as quickly as possible. When the Internet goes down, consumers don't notice the difference between a technical malfunction, an act of sabotage by hackers or a military attack.

Each government minister views the circumstances of each issue differently. An interior minister has a different view of visa liberalization than does a foreign minister.

I am sympathetic to the fact that Turkey is doing everything it can to prevent the civil war in Syria from spilling over into its own country.

The Americans are and remain our best friends, but this is absolutely not right. We can't simply return to business as usual.

You cannot protect something without intervening on some level.