The upper hand is with those who are pushing regime change rather than those who are advocating more diplomacy.

I wish we had never gotten to the point we are now. We ought to make this work. We have got to confront the opponents before us.

Iraq was at core a war of choice, and extraordinarily expensive by every measure – human life, impact on our military, dollars, diplomatically.

The most dangerous delusion is that a conflict would be either small or quick.

Given [the] potential high costs [of an attack], Washington should be searching harder for a diplomatic alternative, one that entails direct US talks with Iran beyond the narrow dialogue announced on Iraq.

[Bush can claim one triumph: We have suffered no further attack on U.S. soil since 9/11 (not counting the unsolved anthrax attacks later that fall). Casualties are far fewer, too, than in any other major...

There’s a daisy chain that stems from the fact that no weapons of mass destruction have been found.

I do think there’s been progress in some areas. In the last four years, for example, I think the world has become a tougher place for terrorists to operate in.

We cannot sustain this degree of guns, this amount of butter and this level of taxes.

The biggest thing these appointments tell you about the direction of U.S. foreign policy is that there is no direction.

Save your breath. The president has already made up his mind.

To the neorealist,

No matter who is president of Indonesia from August, Jakarta will have to come to grips with the problems on its periphery as political issues, not just as security problems,