America Needs An Adult In The White

When You Have A Regime That Would Be Happier In The Afterlife Than In This Life, This Is Not A Regime That Is Subject To Classic Theories Of Deterrence.

Just As The Security Council Was Largely Irrelevant To The Great Struggle Of The Last Half Of The Twentieth Century - Freedom Against Communism - So Too It Is Largely On The Sidelines In Our Contemporary Struggles Against International Terrorism And The Proliferation Of Weapons Of Mass Destruction.

If A Prosecutor In The Hague Decides That The U.s. Has Not Followed Through Effectively On An Investigation - Is Unwilling Or Unable To Carry It Through - Then That Person, That Prosecutor, In An Unreviewable Fashion Gets To Second-guess The United States? That Is Unacceptable. That Is An Assertion Of Authority Over And Above The U.s. Constitution.

It's Very Personal In Its Politics, Very Bitter And Very Negative.

I'm Obviously Aware That People Are Quite Focused On The Economy Rather Than Foreign Policy Issues, But That Is Something That Should And Can Be Altered As People See The Nature Of The Threats Around The World That We Face.