The Post noted that "Foreign policy has played a marginal role so far in the Republican presidential contest, squeezed to the side during debates focused on the U.S. economy and by social issues such as immigration."

Christopher DeMuth--thinker, strategist, administrator.

For nearly two decades, the debate about whether or not to establish a national missile defense system has smoldered in Washington. The debate, fueled in large part with intellectual firepower from the capital's think tanks, has outlived the Cold War that spawned it.

If this so-called "Super Committee" falls short—or if the required deficit reduction legislation is not enacted by January 15, 2012—then the Pentagon's long-term budget will suffer the brunt of the consequences.

I fear that government is now threatening us on the road to freedom, a road to a New Economy wrought by a new technology.

Growing competition has swept away long-entrenched monopolies in private markets. Now it is the turn of the most powerful and entrenched monopolies: the monopolies of government.