This event will present a variety of views on Washington's difficulty with public diplomacy and outreach to the Muslim world.

The new president will need to decide whether democracy in the process is more important than democracy as the final result. How should the United States react if, as the new regimes rewrite their constitutions, they turn from democracy toward theocracy? (INCLUDES VIDEO)

The value of the Egyptian alliance is less than meets the eye.

In November 2003, President George W. Bush jettisoned half a century of American foreign policy, declaring that “stability can not be purchased at the expense of liberty.” America, he announced, would adopt a “forward strategy of freedom in the Middle East.”But any freedom strategy in the Middle East...

A Middle East policy resting on Egypt is a house built on sand.

When U.S. assistance is needed most, our silence is deafening.

While President Bush once spoke of freedom, he now courts those who oppose it.

The great surprise is not that millions took to the streets in Egypt but rather that the United States had for so long predicated its regional security on Mubarak.