The United States could lead a loose coalition freed from international bureaucracies and stultifying rules, which would take responsibility for maintaining international peace and spreading market democracy. The test for war would not be whether it upsets the status quo, but whether it improves global human welfare.

The transition to market-states has repercussions for global terrorism.

To pretend that the Geneva Convention applies to al Qaeda, a non-state actor that targets civilians and disregards other laws of war, denies the reality of the war on terror.

The banana giant has unfairly paid for its own transparency.

The champion of the Iraq surge argues that now is no time to go soft on another front.

Are we willing to support our ally Iraq with long-term military bases after the war?

There are nine principles the Obama administration should follow to achieve success in Afghanistan.

Success will be achieved in Iraq whenit is a stable, representative state that controls its own territory, is oriented toward the West, and is an ally in the war on terror.