Gagging Grenell was a bad play for the Romney team because it guaranteed the issue wouldn't go away. The only way to dispel concerns about the man's fitness for the job was to let him do his job. Muzzling him until he resigned was the worst possible way to handle it because all it did was feed crocodiles like Fischer.

In order to succeed, the European Union and the US should, in view of this major challenge to our common security, pool their capabilities, assets and projects to form a new transatlantic initiative for the Middle East.

Historian David Hackett Fischer has been selected as the recipient of AEI's Irving Kristol Award for 2006.

David Hackett Fischer will receive the 2006 Irving Kristol Award at AEI's annual dinner on March 8, 2006.

Ambassador Bolton's review of John Fonte's book "Sovereignty vs. Submissions:  Will Americans Rule Themselves of be Ruled by Others?"

Consider two foreign ministers. The first wants "to destroy" the Taliban; the second to work with "moderate Taliban leaders." The second voice is that of U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell; the hawkish first voice, that of Germany's foreign minister, Joschka Fischer, leader of his country's left-wing Green party.

At what point do the potential public benefits of vigorous prosecution outweigh the actual harm when fundamental legal protections are suspended?

We rarely think about the sheer magnitude of power in the hands of government attorneys.