Our enemies are already sensing our weakness and irresolution and emboldened by it.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Second thoughts, from Goldstone to the 'Arab Spring'

Then again, 2002 could turn out to be yet one more year of government irresolution, in which banks are propped up and not cleaned up.

ECONOMIST: Japan's banks

If so, the U.S. response has been negligible and the Chinese can only be further emboldened by our irresolution to stand up to their aggressive behavior.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Obama's Global Makeover

The best hope for averting a renewed regional war is if Israel's enemies perceive that Sharon's election signifies that the Jewish State has found its footing again after years of irresolution and drift.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: New Wind Blowing in the Middle East

The costs of such disloyalty have already been high: a government seen by friends and foes alike as distracted, at best, and, at worst, paralyzed by divided counsel, communicating mixed signals and signaling an irresolution that invites contempt and aggression.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The disloyalists

President Obama's encouraging other adversaries, from Russia to China to North Korea to Chavismo in our hemisphere, thanks to the weakness and irresolution that have characterized his policies to date and that his team now feels the need to obscure with heavy spinning of the leaked secrets.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Hold Obama Accountable