Faced with the likelihood of spreading violence and Iranian influence in Iraq and throughout the Middle East, will the next president make the hard choices to confront those threats to American national security, or will he or she seek to remain aloof?

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Japanese-Americans were put in concentration camps. That there was no comparable overreaction after 9/11, and that we have been able to preserve a free and open society, owes much to the fact that for 10 years there has been no repetition of those terrible attacks.

President Obama has both undermined national security and eroded the foundation of human rights law.

President Hosni Mubarak’s program of political and economic reform was the talk of the recent Egyptian presidential elections, and accelerated economic-reform plans were essential elements of the platforms of both of the key opposition groups. Egypt’s financial-sector reforms, especially the simplification of tariff and customs regimes, have improved the climate...

The Bush administrationshould explain how poorly the Democrats have dealt with national-security affairs and howBillClinton mishandled the terrorist attacks that preceded 9/11.

On the tenth anniversary of September 11th, one way to honor those dead is to recognize what they accomplished. Along with the mourning and thanksgiving, there is also much to celebrate on this anniversary. Three successes stand out as particularly important.

Pakistan is at a crossroads. With the massacre of scores of security forces in an apparent retaliatory attack by militants, and US demands for tougher action against al Qaeda and the Taliban, room for Pakistan to play both sides of the war on terror is rapidly shrinking. The big questions raised by this watershed moment may force Islamabad into making existential choices.

Are we willing to face the fact that most terrorism consists of acts of war being waged by identifiable nations?