Mass killing has very clearly not been eliminated, nor has the 'international community' developed a response that will avert it or bring it to a quick end.
The attack on the British embassy in Tehran came just days after the Iranian 'parliament' voted to expel the British ambassador, and therefore reeks of official complicity.
The Assad regime has lost the consent of the governed, and it is difficult to see how a replacement Alawite regime would be able to regain this consent.
The Arab monarchies, especially Jordan and Morocco, are more legitimate than the false republics, with their stolen elections, regime-dominated courts and rubber-stamp parliaments.
Obama, like Carter, is reacting to warning signs by seeking to split the difference between dispirited Democrats and increasingly radicalized Republicans.
I support the recommendations made by the International Crisis Group. The primary responsibility is for Kosovo Albanians to demonstrate that their treatment of minorities is adequate.
Albania has to demonstrate that it is willing to be a reliable partner in the international community.
I don't expect to get yesterday's medicine. If I can help it, I'd like to get tomorrow's medicine.
I was an English major in college, and then I went to graduate school in English at the University of North Carolina for three years.
Part of resilience is deciding to make yourself miserable over something that matters, or deciding to make yourself miserable over something that doesn't matter.
If people think that you're throwing babies out, dissecting children, to do stem-cell research, I'm not for that.
I have less energy than I did when I was a younger parent, although I was never really a young parent.
Part of what I want to do is sort of reclaim my story - it belongs to me and to my children, who have to live with whoever their mother is.
I try to recognize that there is no such thing as having it all - and it's impossible to be perfect. You just have to let certain things go.
People talk about perfect timing, but I think everything is perfect in its moment; you just want to capture that.
When I feel off, I read the 'Tao Te Ching' to get my equilibrium right. I started reading it in the eleventh grade.
I don't like labels. I don't understand the need for them. When you define yourself a certain way, people have expectations.
I saw an opportunity to use a restaurant to identify a lot of my issues and concerns with being an immigrant in America, and Asian in America, and a young person in America.
I don't think people understand the model-minority stereotype is negative. You are boxed in. You have to untangle that to find your own path.
You constantly hear about voter fraud... but you don't see huge amounts of vote fraud out there.
Guantanamo is a chief recruiting tool for al-Qaida. It has put a wedge between the United States and at least some of its allies.
