Gagging Grenell was a bad play for the Romney team because it guaranteed the issue wouldn't go away. The only way to dispel concerns about the man's fitness for the job was to let him do his job. Muzzling him until he resigned was the worst possible way to handle it because all it did was feed crocodiles like Fischer.

In the wake of the successful 2004 Afghan presidential election, some have suggested that the U.S. role in Central Asia will diminish. Rather than diverting resources from the region, however, the United States has confirmed a long-term partnership with the new Afghan government. Military and security cooperation between the two...

All of this preemptive appeasement inevitably weakens the forces of democratic revolution in the Middle East and elsewhere, as it greatly cheers the tyrants.

The Iranian "roadmap" was not a roadmap and was not Iranian.

Obama’s way of war, his “rebalancing” of U.S. strategic priorities, and the damage done to American military power are already being felt in the world.

Insurgencies end when they are defeated, not when their participants win immunity.

It is a myth that the United States has boycotted diplomacy with Iran.

Renewed fighting in Afghanistan could call for a new strategy.