There is a fair amount of competition, obviously, with ISIL and the terrorist networks around the world, China also posing a different kind of threat to the rules-based order.
When I wake up in the middle of the night when I hear one of my kids coughing or crying, I think about Syria.
When I wake up in the morning, I think about Syria.
I think that the only time we will really know what then-President Trump is going to do about the set of challenges that confront him is after he has sat down with his advisers as the commander in chief, when he's looking at the threats and the intelligence from the standpoint of being the number one decider, when he's hearing from his secretary of defense, his chairman, who was the same chairman President Obama had, Chairman Joe Dunford, who is an outstanding public servant, who has led our anti-ISIL effort, on which we're making great progress.
We need to find means for cooperation.
I think Obama is right when he talks about the rule of law as a cornerstone of what the United States should stand for.
Democracies are expense-averse and they think in terms of short-term, political interests rather than a long-term interest in stability.
I got into journalism not to be a journalist but to try to change American foreign policy. I'm a corny person. I was a dreamer predating my journalistic life, so I got into journalism as a means to try to change the world.
President Reagan, of course, did more than any other person to entrench the Republican reputation for toughness on national security.
Over the years, Western governments have been criticized for working with foreign police who have proved abusive or corrupt.
Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
We know that often holding those who have carried out mass atrocities accountable is at times our best tool to prevent future atrocities.
As even a democracy like the United States has shown, waging war can benefit a leader in several ways: it can rally citizens around the flag, it can distract them from bleak economic times, and it can enrich a country's elites.
No more than a surgeon can operate while tweeting can you reach your potential with one ear in, one ear out. You actually have to reacquaint yourself with concentration. We all do.
The story of U.S. policy during the genocide in Rwanda is not a story of willful complicity with evil. U.S. officials did not sit around and conspire to allow genocide to happen.
When it came to the Vietnam War, Mr. McNamara was an early advocate of escalation but came to realize the flaws in the American approach earlier than many of his colleagues. Yet in public, he continued to defend the war.
Engaging Iran won't guarantee improved U.S.-Iranian relations or a more stable Gulf region. But not engaging means more of the same.
I believe the United States is the greatest country on Earth. I really do.
I happen to miss the Constitution; I thought it was a good document.
