While debate has continued in recent months in Washington and Baghdad about the wisdom and need for U.S. forces to remain in Iraq, Obama's statement at the United Nations General Assembly appears to end the debate.

The recent spontaneous, Twitter-led uprising in Moldova sounded too good to be true--and it was.

Forces allied to the former Gadhafi regime could still threaten a fragile new government using guerilla and terrorist tactics. It would be a mistake to underestimate his tenacity or to dismiss the warning of his son Seif that "We will fight to our very last man, woman, and bullet."

The time is ripe for Washington to push NATO into a greater role in European energy security.

Spying in on the afterlife.

In last two years the matter of European energy security has become of utmost importance for the United States and its allies.

Yasser Arafat has enjoyed amazing success in persuading the world's governments to draw a distinction between al Qaeda terrorism and his own supposedly more acceptable brand.