- "There will be times when nations - acting individually or in concert - will find the use of force not only necessary but morally justified." - President Obama accepts the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo.
- "This is our war as well as America's." - Pakistan's president Asif Ali Zardari tries to reach out to the American public with an op-ed in the New York Times.
- Robin Wright claims that failure in Afghanistan could mark the formal end of the unipolar world, and the consequences might "dwarf those of the defeat in Vietnam."
- While the Republicans are scoring political points by criticizing the science behind global warming, will their position come back to haunt them in the long term?