Thank you, Madam Chairman.Among the very top priorities of U.S. foreign and security policies, I doubt there are many – if any – objectives more important than a free, democratic, stable, and prosperous Russia, at peace, in the long last, with its own people, its neighbors and the...

At this event, panelists discussed the depth of the Venezuela-Iran relationship, and how should the United States react to the growing threat.

The Venezuelan opposition must begin to prepare for a future without Hugo Chávez. The same is true for the U.S.government, which has been all but ignoring Venezuela for the last five years.

Podhoretz criticizes Bush's foreign policy and relatesBush's decisions to the arguments made by the 2008 presidential candidates in the upcoming election.

American glee at the sight of Chirac with mud on his face is understandable; he was, after all, the leading opponent of the Iraq war and has long championed a Europe capable of serving as a counterweight to U.S. power. But Americans should hold their applause, which they may soon come to regret. That's because the eclectic group of angry French leftists, populists, nationalists, and nostalgics who opposed Chirac and the constitution had very different--in fact, precisely opposite--reasons for doing so than the Americans who cheered them on. In other words, if you didn't like French policies before Sunday, you're going to like them even less now.

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

Elected leaders of the five small Central American nations are working together to fortify a promising partnership based on free people and free markets in Nicaragua.