I think Obama sees everything through one lens. Doing nothing in the face of the slaughter in Syria is not only shameful, it is unrealistic. This approach leaves Syria as a broken country and a breeding ground for extremists for decades.

I think, in the longer view of things, there is a very powerful pull in the direction of participatory government.

The use of force to liberate people is very different from the use of force to suppress or control them, or even to defeat them.

I think Obama sees everything through one lens. Doing nothing in the face of the slaughter in Syria is not only shameful, it is unrealistic. This approach leaves Syria as a broken country and a breeding ground for extremists for decades.

Iraq has no history of ethnic conflict.

Every math curriculum in the world is based on the idea of hand-calculating, and most of what you're teaching is how to calculate. And I think the resistance to this is very variable.

If a cat sits on a hot stove once, it will never sit on a cold one either.