In his support for the Obama administration's lawsuit that challenges the constitutionality of Arizona's immigration law, a deputy secretary of state had the troubling stance that criticism by foreign governments is sufficient to affect constitutional adjudication.

A good way out of strategic insolvency--a condition a country enters when it is not funding the commitments it has made--would be to properly resource the plans already put out by DOD. But troublingly, the Obama administration is not funding the capabilities the military says it needs to fulfill the missions assigned to it by its civilian masters.

Over the span of a week in Europe in February, President Bush will try to convince skeptical allied leaders that he means to work with them - up to a point.

For the most part, the U.S. government is indifferent as to whether beneficiaries of American taxpayer dollars are doing business in Iran, so the United States is indirectly subsidizing Iran.

Is President Obama's foreign policy toward Asia radically similar--or radically different--from that of previous administrations?

The United States should prepare diplomati­cally and militarily for a potential crisis with China.

The leaders of the West must recognize that our current strategy towards Russia is failing. Our policies have failed to contribute to the democratic Russia we wished for and the people of this great country deserve after all the suffering they have endured. It is time for us to rethink how and to what extent we engage with Putin"s Russia and to put ourselves unambiguously on the side of democratic forces in Russia.

A bipartisan group of former adminstration officials write to Attorney General Gonzales in support of reauthorizing the Patriot Act.