Stephen J. Hadley: “I think the reason that the free world follows us and that despots and dictators fear us is because of our values.”

Ultimately, the best prospect for achieving a stable Afghanistan will be a peaceful transition to a new government based on a free and fair Presidential election in 2014 that is credible and produces an outcome that is acceptable by the…

I think the Arab states have largely been very shortsighted about this and very stingy.

One of the things I think we have to recognize is that this international order that the United States helped build and maintain for 70 years after World War II was really an almost an unprecedented experiment for a major global power.

Death squads and armed gangs are going around murdering people, kidnapping people, sometimes in broad daylight. There has to be a consequence for that. People need to be held to account.