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When there’s a problem, we can usually count on Congress to react by a) throwing money at it and b) regulating it. Case in point: homeland security. Two recent overseas terrorist attacks -- including a bombing on the India-Pakistan rail line -- have sent Congress into apoplexy. Lawmakers plan to have a bill that would dramatically step up rail security on the Senate floor very soon.
A new definition of "human security" being promoted at the U.N.,which includes guaranteeing everything from a minimum income toprotection from violence and the loss of traditions and values,could undermine fundamental principles of sovereignty,accountability, and national security. The U.S. government mustresist language in U.N. declarations, resolutions, and agreementsthat embraces a faulty understanding of security.
Many of America's friends are beginning to feel like unwanted guests. Sure, they understand our caution in a post-September 11th world, but they think we don't appreciate them like we used to. We drag our feet deciding when they can stop by for a visit. We expect plenty of notice, and we have lots of questions.
America has fought five wars in Iraq -- not merely one. And we’ve won or are winning four of them.
When Congress passed the law that will govern how terrorist suspects can be tried in military tribunals, it acted just like the Founding Fathers would have wished.