James Jones: “The Keystone pipeline will have a negligible impact on the environment.”

One of the reasons that AFRICOM wound up in Stuttgart, Germany was that we refused to change the title 'combatant command.'

My definition of that condition is that a nation is in decline when it can no longer bring itself to do those things that deep down it knows it needs to do for its own good.

Most of our friends and allies in the Gulf... still consider Iran to be an existential threat for the foreseeable future.

The fact is that the Iraqi army is moving in a positive direction and is going to be able to take over more of the internal struggle inside -- inside of Iraq.