During most of the Bush administration, human rights and democracy in Egypt were on the front burner.

After 9/11, we did see Palestinian terrorism in the context of all terrorism.

Obamas foreign policy is strangely self-centered, focused on himself and the United States rather than on the conduct and needs of the nations the United States allies with, engages with, or must confront.

Pundits are used to analyzing the gap between what our ideals suggest and what our security interests require.

Like all forms of collective security, multilateral sanctions require a unanimity rarely achieved in international politics.

As the Palestinian leadership never seems to pay any penalty for its words, America's seriousness about the peace process is in doubt.

The intersection of religion and world politics has often been a bloody crossroads.