Elliott Abrams

Henry M. Jackson, congressman and senator from 1941 until his death in 1983, achieved far greater renown than most legislators, ran for president in 1972 and 1976, and was for much of the 1970s and 1980s one of the most powerful men in America. ”

Like all forms of collective security, multilateral sanctions require a unanimity rarely achieved in international politics. ”

Libya as a country is a relatively new concept. The period of Libya as a modern nation really starts after World War II. ”

The logic of collective security is flawless, provided it can be made to work under the conditions prevailing on the international scene... The odds, however, are strongly against such a possibility. ”

The United States should encourage Israel to take further steps to improve the Palestinian economy. ”

When you work in the White House you talk to the White House staff all day, so you're talking to the guy who handles the congressional liaison and the guy who's handling domestic politics and the guy who's handling the American economy and so forth. ”

Refusing to lift sanctions and adopting tougher rhetoric toward Iran would not be partisan issues. Plenty of Democrats think that those actions are both good politics and good policy. ”