Robert Mugabe only knows about power and protecting it. Aid and soft words have not worked. Tough talk from the State Department, backed up by action from the region, is what is required.

Five years late, Ilario Pantano has been fully vindicated. Now where does he go to get his reputation back?

Diplomacy can never supplant the importance of military victory. Obama may want to bring the troops home, but the diplomacy-first strategy hampers peace. As the history of drinking tea with the Taliban shows, talk is not only cheap; it is deadly.

In the case of Sen. Drubin's comparison of Guantanamo Bayto the murderers of three evil despotic regimes, expressing outrage is not enough. Sen. Durbin must be censured now.

Obama is not the first president whose personal popularity bolstered his campaign, but as seen by the decline of Carter, personality alone cannot hold together a coalition.

We have seen what nearly two decades of timid, supine humanitarian aid has brought the North Korean people: food insecurity without end. Isn't it time to fashion an aid program as if the North Korean people really mattered?

Engagement with enemies remains President Obama's wonder drug, but the only path to victory in Afghanistan is to decisively defeat the Taliban leadership.

There are 24 people who are beneficiaries of nontrivial presidential buzz, but only five are likely to emerge as true candidates.