Barack Obama’s presidency has had profoundly negative consequences for our national security. From debilitating cuts in defense budgets, to gutting national missile defense efforts, to his unwillingness to acknowledge a continuing war against terrorism, to his inability to stem the nuclear proliferation threats posed by North Korea and Iran....the picture is bleak.

As the terror threat grows and terrorist groups demonstrate worldwide reach, democracies fumble not only for an effective political strategy to combat terrorism, but also for a definition.

Last week's announcement represents the predictable culmination of decades of progress on a multifaceted program of weapons of mass destruction.

Last week's bombings in London and the yet-unidentified terrorists behind them may have been a symptom of larger social problems for Western Europe's Muslim population, such as difficulties assimilating and high unemployment rates.

President Bush was not only accurate in his description of Iran, Iraq and North Korea as an "axis of evil," but he was wise to use that memorable phrase in his State of the Union address.

Today’s bombing of an Israeli diplomat’s car in New Delhi is sure to raise international scrutiny on India’s problematic ties with Iran.

When President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad emerged from seemingly nowhere to capture the Iranian presidency in 2005, American officials were dumbfounded. Whereas his predecessor, Mohammad Khatami, sought to assuage the West with talk of ‘dialogue of civilizations’, Ahmadinejad was crude and coarse.

If there is one success story since 9/11, it has been the efforts to combat terror finance. If military action is sometimes akin to conducting surgery with an axe, efforts to dry up sources of funding are like wielding a scalpel.