Stephen J. Hadley: “The Middle East is a safer place when the United States is clear and consistent in its intentions.”

I urge all Americans to unite behind the President's defensive decision to strike one of the world's most powerful terrorist who was organizing against--organizing attacks against Americans in Iraq in defiance, I might add, of U.N…

For far too long, Tehran has been permitted to act with impunity against U.S. allies' interests and its personnel. I applaud the President for making our red lines clear.

We need to have not just be talking about democracy; we've got to have a conscious strategy for how to counter what they're doing.

I think the reason that the free world follows us and that despots and dictators fear us is because of our values.