Richard N. Haass: “America's credibility is not on the line. We are the greatest Nation in the history of the world.”

I hope he's right, but I'm profoundly skeptical.

The disconnect or the gap between the pace of political change which is now going quite quickly, and the scale of the economic problems, people should be worried about how Egypt is going to go.

I take offense at the comparison to the run-up to the Iraq War.

It is necessary but not sufficient that Iran not be permitted to assemble one or more nuclear bombs.