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A Strong State Department To Me Means A Corps Of Career Officials Who Believe That Their Job Is To Advocate America's Interests And Who Are Trained In Effective Advocacy, Not Schooled In Accommodation.

Every Country Has An Aspect To It That Rubs Up People The Wrong Way.

By Creating A Prosecutor Who Is Overseen Over By A Court, They Are Melding Executive And Judicial Power In A Way That Can Lead To Terrible Abuses - As The Founders Of America Understood Full Well. It's Why They Created A System Of Separated Powers - To Set Up A Constitutional Mechanism That Would Enhance Freedom, By Making Sure That No One's Accumulation Of Power Could Predominate Over [that Of] Others.

I Think It's Critical That We Return National Security Issues To The Center Of The Overall Political Debate In America.

The Real Issue Of Dealing With Proliferation Of Weapons Of Mass Destruction: Nuclear, Chemical Or Biological Is: What Is Your Tolerance For Risk? And My Tolerance For Risk For Wmd Proliferation Is Pretty Close To Zero. Because Otherwise, We And Our Allies Are At The Mercy Of Regimes Like Ahmadinejad And The Mullahs In Tehran, Or Kim Jong Il And The Hitler-in-the-bunker Mentality In Pyongyang, Or Others Who Don't Share Our Calculus On The Value Of Human Life.