The Republican Party Is The Party Of

You Have To Negotiate From Positions Of Strength. And Right Now With Iran, We're Not Negotiating From A Position Of Strength. The Europeans Are Negotiating From The Position Of "please Give Up Your Nuclear Weapons Program, And By The Way If You Do We'll Give You Several Boatloads Of Carrots." The Iranians Are Quite Willing To Keep On Negotiating On That Line For A Long Time.

I Think It's Critical That We Return National Security Issues To The Center Of The Overall Political Debate In America.

I Think The International Criminal Court Could Be A Threat To American Security Interests, Because The Prosecutor Of The Court Has Enormous Discretion In Going After War Crimes. And The Way The Statute Of Rome Is Written, Responsibility For War Crimes Can Be Taken All The Way Up The Chain Of Command. This Is The Sort Of Investigation That Some People Who Live In Fairyland Might Like To Undertake, But Which Bears No Relationship At All To Conditions In The Real World.

It Was Right To Overthrow Saddam Hussein. It Was The Regime Itself That Was A Threat. I Think In Hindsight, What I Would Have Done Is Turn Authority Back Over To Iraqis Much More Quickly And Say: "your Country, You Figure Out How To Run It."

Every Country Has An Aspect To It That Rubs Up People The Wrong Way.