Robert Hormats was the "guest-bloger" this week at Table for One, TPMCafe:

• The power of the purse and the future of America's security, 21 May 2007.


• The cost of the Iraq war, 22 May 2007.


• Responding to your feedback, 24 May 2007.

Hormats is the author of The Price of Liberty: Paying for America's Wars, Times Books, 2007.