America could use a proper strategy for promoting reform in the Arab world.

In his Cairo speech, Mr. Obama used the word "must" more than 30 times.

Obama is right that we need to be better at civilian national-security operations.

Obama has a chance to build on sound Bush diplomacy.

"There is no end to the jihad". That's what the jihadists say. That's what a New York Times correspondent finds out in Afghanistan and Iraq.

A government in a democracy can lose a war by what it's leaders say just as surely as it can lose it by failures of its generals in the field.