The most encouraging news of the last week — the results of the 2007 Pew Global Attitudes Project survey showing a decline in Muslim support for violence against civilians — failed to grab many prominent headlines. But it contributes to evidence that a substantial number of the largely silent majority of Islamic moderates may have [...]

When supporters of the Iraq war argue that the United States should avoid premature, politically motivated gestures – such as last week’s U.S. House of Representatives vote to pull out by April 2008 – I cannot help responding, “And what was the essence of the original decision to intervene?”
In short, it was premature and politically [...]

When I wrote about the exploding Palestinian-versus-Palestinian crisis last week, I hardly anticipated numerous messages about my “suggested peace plan.” Actually, I referenced more of an idea to break the logjam — a regional peace conference on the order of the Madrid summit of 1991 — than a plan.
One recent development that dovetails nicely with [...]