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.”

Our best information operation has always been truth and trying to get it to the people in these closed societies because what is really the toxic element for them is actually truth about what is happening in the world.

Freedom, democracy, human rights, and the rule of law are the very DNA of this Nation.

What I am troubled by is that if we make ultimately an accommodation with Assad, we send the message to the world that if you are brutal enough with your own people and kill enough of them, the international community will let you stay in…

The Middle East is a safer place when the United States is clear and consistent in its intentions.