The Real Roots of Arab Anti-Americanism Despite what may argue, Arab and Muslim rage at the United States has had very little to do with actual U.S. policies-policies that have been remarkably pro-Arab over the past 5o years. Promoting anti Americanism is simply the best way Muslim leaders have found to distract their publics from the real problem: internal mismanagement. New U.S. policies or a PR campaign will not change matters

The Responsibility to Protect Throughout the humanitarian crises of the 199os, the international community failed to come up with rules on how and when to intervene, and under whose authority. Despite the new focus on terrorism, these debates will not away. These issues must be reframed as an argument not about the “right to intervene” but about the “responsibility to protect” that all sovereign states owe to their citizens

when Soldiers Become Cops As Afghanistan has shown, keeping the peace in foreign lands requires a variety of tools-some of which Washington just does not have. Rather than avoid peacekeeping entirely, the U.S. government ends up sending in elite military units that get bogged down for years. Developing a constabulary force would be a better answer