Pollster Peter Brown says that for now Americans seem patient as they await the result of the president's efforts to revive the ailing U.S.economy.

VOA: standard.2009.04.03

But,he adds,although the TTP and al-Qaida have different goals, they have been growing closer, and that U.S.officials now believe there is a terrorist syndicate in Pakistan.

VOA: standard.2010.05.05

"I think in a year's time,you're going to see a much closer U.S.-Saudi relationship than you have now, and I think it's good that the president is stopping off,"

VOA: standard.2009.06.02

"Now that gets mutated into a conspiracy theory where the U.S.

VOA: standard.2010.07.08

"The new treaty that the U.S.and Russia are now negotiating would drop these levels even lower to somewhere between 1,500 and 1,675 deployed strategic warheads and somewhere probably below 800 strategic nuclear delivery systems,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.07

He expressed reluctance to comment on American domestic affairs, but suggested that a renewal of the now-expired U.S.ban on assault weapons would be helpful in curbing the flow of high-powered armaments to Mexican drug cartels.

VOA: standard.2009.04.12

"David Miliband said a while back, having said 54 times that in answer to parliamentary questions that nobody had gone through Diego Garcia, he said on the 55th time that actually the U.S.had now told him that people had gone through Diego Garcia.

VOA: standard.2009.07.28

He also sees diplomacy as not succeeding and insufficient to persuade Iran or to stop Iran from going nuclear, And I think he will be showing his frustration to President Obama that what the U.S.administration is trying to do now is too late and not enough."

VOA: standard.2010.06.29

Now that the decision has been made to move forward with what the review called an "integral" part of U.S.defenses, the second ranking U.S.military officer, General James Cartwright, says the American military commands will spend some time figuring out how to use the various aspects of the system in their regions.

VOA: standard.2010.03.26