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

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.

United Nations peacekeepers are going all over the world spreading AIDS even while they're trying to bring peace. What a supreme irony.

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

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

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.

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