Partnership for a Secure America

There’s enough Turkey for everyone this season. The United States has Ankara’s support for stopping the spread of nuclear weapons in the Middle East, and the Islamic Republic of Iran enjoys Ankara’s backing of the Iranian nuclear program. ...

For those who love America, one simple thing is supposed to mark the political culture of this country as fundamentally fair and just: the role the law plays in providing protection and redress against the excesses, incompetence, and cruelty of government itself. ...

Last week the Washington Post printed two letters from different sources who had spent time on the ground in Afghanistan. They came to very different conclusions about the American presence there.

Earlier this week, President Obama signed into law the $680 billion FY 2010 Defense Authorization Bill, the largest such budget since the end of World War II. If you missed that aspect of the story, you ...

President Obama said when he took office that Afghanistan would be his number one foreign affairs priority. It may become his nemesis. President Obama has said that he is not going to make new commitments until he is sure that the plan is the correct one. In this, he is correct. Gen. ...

Just about a week ago a bipartisan breakthrough happened on climate change legislation. Senators Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and John Kerry (D-MA) came up with a bipartisan blueprint that could be a model for ...

With the possible exception of Georgia-US-Russia, no US relationship in the former Soviet region is more fraught today than the US-Russia-Ukraine triangle. At a time when Washington and Moscow have variously ...

We’re now 9 months into the Obama administration and, on a number of fronts, I think our country is more secure. Most of all, Obama has set a new tone in our relations with the world. But I continue ...

Well before Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, Americans were speculating on whether his ascendancy to the highest office in the land would help to improve the United States’ tarnished reputation in the world.

President Obama is in something of a pickle. Federal courts have ordered that 21 photos of American soldiers abusing prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan must be released to the public. The Obama Administration ...

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Last week John Kerry had a compelling op-ed in the Wall Street Journal that examined many of the issues being debated about a potential troop increase in Afghanistan. Even though I believe that a long ...