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Secretary of State John Kerry says the Iranian nuclear deal is based on verification, not trust with Iran. “Everybody has a right to be skeptical because there are indications that there are people in Iran who have wanted to pursue a weapons program, Kerry said in an interview aired Sunday on CBS’s "Face the Nation." “That's why we don't take anything at face value. That's why you don't take it for granted.” Asked if he were skeptical whether Iran would actually comply with the signed deal, Kerry said trust wasn’t necessary, and no one was expecting Iran to “turn over...

All I have seen in South Florida is praise for Hussein...not much for our military. And NO mention of Hamas' condemnation of America....have any of the above-mentioned liberals spoken out about our great military?

I am unusual, apparently. It’s not because I am a coffeehouse dweller, or an NPR listener, or prone to wear loafers with jeans. In the world I inhabited until recently, all of these are quite normal. Rather, it is that I am also a field artillery officer in the U.S. Army. Which places me in that subdemographic of New York lawyers who wear suits and work in office buildings until they decide to join the military and blow things up. (Trust me, there are some; just not many.) For this decision, I now endure lingering looks of concern from people...

Like father, like son IN JAPAN'S dynastic politics, even foreign policy is a family business. The most recent prime minister, Shinzo Abe, was the grandson of one prime minister; the incumbent, Yasuo Fukuda, is the first prime minister to follow his father's footsteps into office. The hawkish Mr Abe indulged in occasional revisionism over Japan's rapine wartime past and espoused a sweeping “arc of freedom and prosperity” that was supposed to anchor Japan in a Eurasian community of democratic nations but was in practice a not-particularly-subtle attempt to throw a cordon around a rising China. Though the arc languishes as...

Global Security: Alternatives to the War on Terror A speech at Ecumenical Advocacy Days, Arlington, VAJim Winkler, GBCS General SecretaryKeynote Address delivered by Jim Winkler, General Secretary, United Methodist General Board of Church & Society at the Global Security Track of Ecumenical Advocacy Days March 11, 2006, Arlington, VA Do not repay anyone evil for evil, but take thought for what is noble in the sight of all. If it is possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all. Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave room for the wrath of God; for it is written,...

Right now Ted "The Swimmer" Kennedy is carrying the water for Al Qaeda. Remember: these weapons can be developed as LOW YIELD nuclear bombs to PINPOINTEDLY TARGET terrorist cells in caves like Tora Bora, etc.Of course, the liberals want to cut these weapons.