Our Founders believed in controlling guns - carefully, so they'd hit redcoats when they fired.

Heroes and traitors in the Land Down Under.

More problems in Pakistan.

You can't defend a whole continent on a shoestring.

Our closest friend? Or our fiercest enemy?

Why do Americans bother to be a superpower? What's in it for them?

Sooner or later you have to stand up to madmen - and as costly as that is, it only gets more costly the longer you wait.

Will Obama defend the West from its enemies as past presidents always have?

The situation in Pakistan is a serious threat to Western security.

Afghanistan, Graveyard of Empires