What an exercise in empty rhetoric.

Let's see - the policies the president has adopted are supported by Republican Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger and George Schultz, and former Republican National Security Advisors Brent Scowcroft and Colin Powell. They are joined by the Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen and a host of others.

What these national security heavyweights all recognize is that in a post-9/11 world, nuclear weapons have become more of a liability than an asset. The greatest threat we face is unchecked proliferation, making the likelihood of a terrorist acquiring nuclear weapons more likely. They also recognize that controlling Iran, or North...

It is amazing to me how many posters apparently want to see America fail and are tacitly supporting the terrorists. They are outraged about the would be bomber being read his rights and almost gleeful that a bomb was placed in Times Square because that gives them something to blame Obama for.

In case after case, terrorism suspects—Najibullah Zazi, Omar Farouk Abdulmutallab, and according to news reports, Faisal Shahzad—were read their Miranda rights and then provided critical intelligence to investigators. Reading suspects their rights doesn’t make them clam up—they can do that all by themselves. But it does guarantee that what they say can be legally used in a court of law to convict them.

Those who insist that only...