Democracies Are Expense-averse And They Think In

'acting As If...' I Decided, Ridiculously In Retrospect, That My Experience Covering Women's Volleyball For My College Newspaper Was Sufficient For Me To At Least Try To Become A War Correspondent.

Since 9/11, There Has Been A Huge Leap In People Wanting To Get Personally Involved In Public Service And International Affairs.

Another Longstanding Foreign Policy Flaw Is The Degree To Which Special Interests Dictate The Way In Which The "national Interest" As A Whole Is Defined And Pursued.... America's Important Historic Relationship With Israel Has Often Led Foreign Policy Decision-makers To Defer Reflexively To Israeli Security Assessments, And To Replicate Israeli Tactics, Which, As The War In Lebanon Last Summer Demonstrated, Can Turn Out To Be Counter-productive.

When I Wake Up In The Middle Of The Night When I Hear One Of My Kids Coughing Or Crying, I Think About Syria.

Brokenness Is The Operative Issue Of Our Time - Broken Souls, Broken Hearts, Broken Places.