We are optimistic, but we are optimistic in a cautious fashion.

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

Our neighbor Canada has 2,200 troops serving in Afghanistan. Canada has also assumed responsibility for the Provincial Reconstruction Team in Kandahar, which was originally established by our own military.

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?

Insurgents have capitalized on popular resentment and anger towards the United States and the Iraqi government to build their own political, financial and military support, and the faith of Iraqi citizens in their new government has been severely undermined.

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

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