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.

The fight against terrorism is no closer to success today than it was a decade ago when, in the wake of the September 11 terror attacks, President George W. Bush declared a Global War on Terrorism.

According to observers, the surge in Iraq is working.

Will a new occupant of Pentagon office 3E729 mean a new direction for American strategy in Iraq? Will a new Democratic leadership in Congress deliver a new strategy?

Testimony before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on U.S. policy options in Iraq.

A reformed United Nationscan be fashioned to more effectively meet the goals of its charter and the new challenges that it confronts.

Testimony by John R. Bolton before the House International Relations Committee on October 8, 1998.