It's Very Personal In Its Politics, Very

Texas Is A Big State. It's A Major Force In The Republican Party.

I Think The International Criminal Court Could Be A Threat To American Security Interests, Because The Prosecutor Of The Court Has Enormous Discretion In Going After War Crimes. And The Way The Statute Of Rome Is Written, Responsibility For War Crimes Can Be Taken All The Way Up The Chain Of Command. This Is The Sort Of Investigation That Some People Who Live In Fairyland Might Like To Undertake, But Which Bears No Relationship At All To Conditions In The Real World.

People Say You Favor Assassination, What Do You Think War Is? Except That It's Assassination On A Much Larger Scale, A Much More Horrific Scale.

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.

Swapping Bergdahl For Illegal Enemy Combatants (terrorists, In Common Parlance) Signaled Unmistakably To Taliban And Al Qaeda That Obama Is Determined To Withdraw From Afghanistan No Matter What The Cost To The United States Or Those In Afghanistan Fighting To Remain Free.