The U.N. resolution could end up protecting Gaddafi and guaranteeing the survival of his regime.

Ever since its founding in 1948, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea has maintained an aggressive and bellicose international security posture. Today, fully two decades after the end of the Cold War, North Korea's external defense and security policies look arguably more extreme and anomalous than ever.

The debate about Iraq has had much less to do with Iraq than with the uses of American power.

American power has done much more to preserve peace than the Security Council, and thus subordinating the former to the latter would be a dangerous mistake.

Are you willing to grant the man who sold Saddam Hussein his nuclear reactor the right to veto any plan to disarm that same Saddam?

Diplomatic and military maneuvering intensified yesterday as the Bush administration mobilized for a climactic week in its efforts to disarm Iraq and depose leader Saddam Hussein.

The Beeb once had (and perhaps still has) a great segment called “without comment” in which clips of incredible things are played.  Here’s your print version of our own “without comment” today, from yesterday’s jaw-dropping daily State Department presser discussing the suspension of food aid to North Korea.

The governments in Russia and China very much want to uphold the principle that every now and then the state must crush people who want freedom. That is why they worked together to veto a fairly toothless United Nations resolution condemning the regime in Syria and calling for President Bashar Assad, the lipless murderer who runs the place, to step down.