My Philosophy Is Not A Bean-counting, Accounting

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.

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.

In The United States, There Is A Broadly Shared View That The U.n. Is One Of Many Potential Instruments To Advance U.s. Issues, And We Have To Decide Whether A Particular Issue Is Best Done Through The U.n. Or Best Done Through Some Other Mechanism.

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.

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.