You will not really have durable peace without a proper security structure in the Middle East.

If you bet on individuals, instead of the people, you are going to fail.

The Muslim Brotherhood is a religiously conservative group. They are a minority in Egypt. They are not a majority of the Egyptian people, but they have a lot of credibility because all the other liberal parties have been smothered for 30 years.

It would be, in fact, very ominous if Iraq were to be able to get weapon-usable material, hydro-plutonium or highly enriched uranium from abroad.

We know North Korea has the plutonium that can go into the bomb.

I am an Egyptian Muslim, educated in Cairo and New York, and now living in Vienna. My wife and I have spent half our lives in the North, half in the South. And we have experienced first hand the unique nature of the human family and the common values we all share.

The U.S. engages with North Korea, so I dont see why they cant engage with Iran.