On New Year’s Eve, President Obama signed into law the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act, which contains budgetary and executive provisions for what the administration calls, “the defense of the United States and its interests abroad.”

The U.S.’s adoption of a support role in Libya is appropriate. Its role as supporter rather than leader will help prevent the perception of this intervention as another American crusade.

More than two years after President Obama signed an executive order to close the prison facility, Guantánamo Bay is still operational, with the Obama Administration making the correct decision and reversing its once forceful decision to terminate military tribunals.

The United States possesses the most powerful military on the planet. Unfortunately, the United States’ increasingly inability to develop and acquire military hardware on-time and within budget is threatening this fact.

Until recently, Republicans were a deep minority in Congress, effectively giving the president free rein to conduct his foreign policy as he wished> With major Republican pickups in the midterms, however, this is no longer the case.

At a Ground Zero ceremony to honor the anniversary of 9/11, Obama asserted that, as Americans, “We are not, and never will be, at war with Islam.”

South Korean President Lee-Myung Bak optimistically said that he had “high expectations for the expected outcome of the Summit.” However, quantitative easing alone essentially doomed the entire Conference.