McCain was briefed in detail more than once on enhanced interrogation, so he knows full well that enhanced techniques were not used to gain intelligence from detainees — they were used to compel their cooperation.

For a week people have been asking, "Why won't the president release Osama bin Laden's photo?" That's the wrong question. We should be asking, "Why was Barack Obama in such a hurry to tell us Bin Laden was dead?"

Looks like the isolationist wing of the Tea Party movement has gotten a little traction on the question of war powers. Yesterday, the Senate voted to table a motion--introduced by Sen. Rand Paul--to declare as the sense of the Senate that "The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation."

President Obama may believe that disarmament is a formula for peace, but in the Middle East--and especially Iran--policymakers see such unilateral concessions as encouragement to war.

Tension between Iran and the United States flared on December 28, 2011, when Habibollah Sayyari, commander of Iran’s navy, threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz, the 34-mile-wide passage through which more than one-third of the world’s oil tanker traffic travels.

If Gitmo's prisoners are innocent goatherds, as many claim, why are their alibis so lame?

American policy toward Lebanon, Syria, and Hezbollah remains confused, despite a heightened awareness of terrorism and terrorist groups since 9/11, and it is now time to reassess the American relationship with Lebanon and the challenge posed by Hezbollah.

Karl Zinsmeister's recounts his experiences as a journalist currently embedded in the 82nd Airborne Division.