In recent days, some have questioned whether Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was making a big mistake in appointing so many "special envoys," such as George Mitchell, to handle key trouble spots, like the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. I think they are right to question Clinton about this plethora of envoys. But I don't think the problem is that she has too many; it's that she doesn't have enough. In the case of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, she may need at least a half-dozen envoys. Actually, this conflict is now broken into so many different pieces it may take a whole State Department of its own to resolve it. ...more

February 5, 2009

One of the St. Pete protest signs on the retaliation of Israel upon the Gaza Strip read "What did the kids do?" The answer to that question was the whole reason Israel could no longer hold back a response. For months and months Hamas terrorists have launched missiles from Gaza into neighboring towns just like Sebring. ...more

January 8, 2009

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on Tuesday defended his proposal to withdraw U.S. forces from Iraq over a 16-month period despite opposition to any timeline from the U.S. commander, Gen. David Petraeus. More forces are needed to combat a perilous situation in Afghanistan, Obama said. ...more

July 23, 2008