Elliott Abrams Cab Quotations

Times change. Cable news and the Internet alone have transformed the way outreach to the American people can be accomplished.

The Fayyad cabinet may well be the best the Palestinians ever get. But whatever its good qualities, there is no democracy.

In most cases, cables are marked secret not because the U.S. requires it but because those speaking to us - the foreign leaders across the table - do. They are not keeping secrets from us, but from two other groups: their enemies and their subjects.

Huge numbers of embassy cables are labeled 'unclassified' or 'limited official use' and deal with mundane matters.