The Obama administration’s newly released strategic guidance for the Defense Department emphasizes the importance of defending U.S. interests in the Asia-Pacific. It’s ironic that elements of the strategy suggest the United States will welcome more risk on the Korean peninsula.

Information gleaned after the killing of Osama bin Laden seems to indicate that bin Laden was much more centrally involved in running al Qaeda. Even so, his death is not a decisive blow to the network and it would be wrong to hail it as such.

The conventional wisdom, especially in the US military, is that the IDF erred in several key areas during the Second Lebanon War. The wisdom that has coalesced in America around IDF operations comes from a superficial understanding of the IDF and of its performance in the two conflicts.

Liberals and libertarians may vilify President Bush and Vice President Cheney, but dictators and terrorists now think twice about attacking the United States. Killing Americans again has a cost.

Finding plasticizers in dust is neither surprising nor necessarily a cause for alarm. Evidence that phthalates cause harm in humans is scientifically thin, and campaigners never directly address that hypothesis.

The fact is that there is an ongoing truce on the social issues, because for most Americans they have been overshadowed by concerns raised by the weak economy and the Obama Democrats' vast increase in the size and scope of government.

Piracy is an ancient nuisance, but Somali piracy, linked as it is to Islamist ideology, poses a thornier security challenge.

Our geopolitical goals in the Middle East are enduring, and our maturing grand strategy now accepts that long-term political change demands a deeper involvement.