Stephen J. Hadley: “I think there is a huge opportunity for Congress on a bipartisan basis to lead this debate.”

I think the main thing that we have to think about is how to explain to the American people that our safety and security depends on a different--that we can't wall ourselves off from things.

It should surprise no one that freedom has allowed the expression of sectarian identity and the surfacing of sectarian grievances.

We need to shame him for it. And then, hopefully, the Europeans will show in their response that they are willing to stand up to it.

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…