A great nation like the United States has many and varied interests, and we need both to do business with tyrants and to engage constantly in multilateral diplomacy.
Like all forms of collective security, multilateral sanctions require a unanimity rarely achieved in international politics.
Gadhafi has established no national institutions, not even allowing a fake parliament of the Mubarak or Ben Ali variety that could perhaps be turned into something real.
There isn't any way for the people of Nicaragua to find out what's going on in Nicaragua.
We need to understand that an open society and free speech and press... really are the best weapons against al Qaeda and extremism.
Opponents of U.S. sanctions have made 'unilateral sanctions' their special target. They argue that sanctions observed by many nations would be much more effective. True enough. Far better for trade with an outlaw regime to be restricted by many nations than by just one.
Times change. Cable news and the Internet alone have transformed the way outreach to the American people can be accomplished.
The Obama administration has been trying out a new policy toward Syria since the day it came to office. The Bush cold shoulder was viewed as a primitive reaction, now to be replaced by sophisticated diplomacy. Outreach would substitute for isolation.
I call on the Palestinian people to elect new leaders - leaders not compromised by terror.
I don't think a Palestinian state is going to be created at a conference table; it will be created on the ground in the West Bank, and some day, a peace conference will ratify that which has been built on the ground.
A Palestinian state will never be created by terror.
As the Palestinian leadership never seems to pay any penalty for its words, America's seriousness about the peace process is in doubt.
Cheney's memoir is not about 9/11, or solely about Bush's administration, but about his entire life and political career.
Dubai must crack down on rampant smuggling, and the U.A.E. federal government has significantly stepped up pressure.
If the president of the United States says that attacks on civilians, starvation, and denial of religious freedom in Sudan are important international issues, they become so.
Henry M. Jackson, congressman and senator from 1941 until his death in 1983, achieved far greater renown than most legislators, ran for president in 1972 and 1976, and was for much of the 1970s and 1980s one of the most powerful men in America.
The fake republics are goners; the monarchies have a fighting chance. That's my conclusion after a short visit to the Middle East and discussions with officials and analysts there.
In critical ways, Obama has reversed not just Bush policy but every president's approach to the world since the Second World War, save for that of his soulmate Jimmy Carter.
Pessimism is rife in Israel.
The United States needs to be far clearer: we cannot and will not support any government where Hamas has a real influence and the security forces stop fighting terror.
