A stable Iraq at peace with its neighbors will remain elusive until we improve both the security and the economic environment in Iraq.

Europe was not as outraged by Auschwitz as by Guantanamo Bay.

40 percent of North Korean children suffer from stunted growth. 20 percent are underweight.

So rather than face the bitter truth, China has placed severe restrictions on the Internet and enlisted America's high-tech companies as their Internet police.

How will decent people in the region ever believe in peace if Arab terrorists interpret every gesture of peace as a display of weakness and then act accordingly?

Let me start with Yahoo. As we meet today, a Chinese citizen who had the courage to speak his mind on the Internet is in prison because Yahoo chose to share his name and address with the Chinese Government.

The patience of the American public with dilatory diplomatic delays will be very limited.