Since his election as president of Venezuela in 1998, leftist strongman Hugo Chávez has shattered his country’s already weak institutions to expand and sustain his grip on power and has built an anti-U.S. alliance with Cuba, Iran, Russia and China.

Sixty-four percentof Americanssaid they have never participated in antiwar rallies.

Just in time for your post-Monday morning coffee jitters comes a calming article from Paul Pillar, former CIA Near East hand: We Can Live with a Nuclear Iran.

It appears that our interests were ill-served by the abandonment of Iraq by Barack Obama.

President Obama's speech on Afghanistan has left supporters and opponents alike wondering if he has a strategy there at all -- or is just trying to split the difference between fighting and abandoning an unpopular war.

If assassination was most noxious to the progressive left, the fact that a president they supported embraced the strategy has permanently nullified what otherwise would have been a staunchly partisan issue

The appointment of Thomas Donilon to be the new national-security adviser should be final proof that America's foreign policy is in crisis.

While passage of the Kucinich amendment would have had no operational effect because it surely would have died in the Senate, the political signal internationally would have been debilitating. Washington's credibility and staying power would have been called immediately into question, and not just in Libya, but in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere.