It's an improvisation on a theme. You know where you want to go, but you don't know how to get there. It's not linear.

If a country denies it has AIDS, that country will inevitably become an even greater victim.

The United Nations is an indispensable but deeply flawed organization. It is valuable to the United States, and the United States is invaluable to it. We need to reform it.

The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone.

A peace deal requires agreements, and you don't make agreements with your friends, you make agreements with your enemies.

MEMRI allows an audience far beyond the Arabic-speaking world to observe the wide variety of Arab voices speaking through the media, schoolbooks, and pulpits to their own people. What one hears is often astonishing, sometimes frightening, and always important. Most importantly, it includes the newly-emerging liberal voices of reform and hope, as well as disturbing echoes of ancient hatreds. Without the valuable research of MEMRI, the non-Arabic speaking world would not have this indispensable window.

As countries grapple with modernization, people who are left behind tend to hold firmer and firmer to their view of the evil of modernity.