Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.

It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global Islam.

World War II and the ensuing Cold War compelled the United States to develop a sustained commitment to Western Europe and the Far East.

Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states.

Doing it all by ourselves on our terms, ignoring the rest of the world, shouting loudly that if you're not with us, you are against us, is not going to be a very successful policy,

Americans don't learn about the world; they don't study world history, other than American history in a very one-sided fashion, and they don't study geography.