As Commander in Chief of the United States Military, I will never send our sons and daughters and our brothers and sisters to die in a foreign land without telling the truth about why they're going there.

In the United States today, the Declaration of Independence hangs on schoolroom walls, but foreign policy follows Machiavelli.

It's alarming that military intervention in internal conflicts in foreign countries has become commonplace for the United States.

Any decision to use lethal force against a United States citizen - even one intent on murdering Americans and who has become an operational leader of al-Qaida in a foreign land - is among the gravest that government leaders can face.

We should not be afraid to speak the truth to our powerful friend the United States.

The truth is that anyone... that wants to subvert our Constitution to Shariah Law is an enemy of the United States.