Letters

There actually is a great deal that makes Europeans distinctive.

Author John Diamond says Paul R. Pillar may be understating the role that intelligence analysis plays in policy execution.

It's not lamentable that South Africa lacks a moral foreign policy. We're just being realists.

Most Chinese think real U.S. decline won't happen during their lifetimes. And Georgia might actually be less endangered by Russia if America declines.

The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee says that the United States is cutting too deep into the defense budget.

Ambassador Ertharin Cousin and Nancy Lindborg say U.S. food aid has come a long way since serving as a means of donating surplus commodities.

According to the Catholic Relief Services, food aid can still do a great deal of good.

America's founding principles make the country unique, argues Marion Smith.

Would the United States really be better off with six-year presidential terms?

The executive director of Greenpeace International argues that the world needs less nuclear power, not more.

Historian Lewis L. Gould says that James Traub is taknig the Republican contendors too seriously.

Colombia's former president says that the U.S. counterterrorism model from Latin America can work in Central Asia -- but only if the civil sector gets involved.