Angus King: “We can't wait years for Assad to leave and we turn the guns of the opposition and the Syrian army on ISIL.”

At the end of the day, this deal from the White House is an attempt to boost their short-term political prospects at the true cost of the American people.

National Veterans Suicide Prevention Day is a solemn reminder of our responsibility to the veterans we have lost, and to the families who carry their memory forward.

The grave danger we now face is that the current administration has undermined both prongs of deterrence strategy in different theaters — a lack of will in Ukraine and a lack of capacity in Iran.

Deterrence works only if it’s credible, and the actions of the administration over the past two years — in spite of all the bluster about lethality and testosterone — have severely compromised that credibility, and with it, the safety and…