For many of the world's conflicts, it is difficult even to conjure up a feasible settlement.

Under Clinton, the defiance of world order has become so extreme as to be of concern even to hawkish policy analysts.

Obama has succeeded in descending even below George W. Bush in approval in the Arab world. It's minuscule, few percent.

Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil.

A very large majority of the U.S. population is in favor of establishing diplomatic relations with Cuba and has been for a long time with some fluctuations. And even part of the business world is in favor of it, too. But the government won't allow it.

The U.S. and its allies will do anything they can to prevent authentic democracy in the Arab world.