The Bulk Of The Emails Tend To

American Airstrikes...create Risks, Especially If Our Intelligence There Is Rusty. The Crucial Step, And The One We Should Apply Diplomatic Pressure To Try To Achieve, Is For Maliki To Step Back And Share Power With Sunnis While Accepting Decentralization Of Government. If Maliki Does All That, It May Still Be Possible To Save Iraq. Without That, Airstrikes Would Be A Further Waste In A Land In Which We've Already Squandered Far, Far Too Much.

One Of The Great Failings Of The American Education System (in Our View) Is That Young People Can Graduate From University Without Any Understanding Of Poverty At Home Or Abroad.

The Photos Were Taken By African Union Soldiers. People In Congress Saw Them. I Thought If People Could See Them, There Would Be Public Outcry. No One Would Be Able To Say, We Just Didn't Know What Was Going On There.

Conservatives, Who Have Presumed That The Key To Preventing Aids Is Abstinence-only Education, And Liberals, Who Have Focused On Distribution Of Condoms, Should Both Note That The Intervention That Has Tested Most Cost-effective In Africa Is Neither... Secular Bleeding Hearts And Religious Bleeding Hearts Will Have To Forge A Common Cause.

Palestinian Militancy Has Accomplished Nothing But Increasing The Misery Of The Palestinian People. If Palestinians Instead Turned More To Huge Gandhi-style Nonviolence Resistance Campaigns, The Resulting Videos Would Reverberate Around The World And Palestine Would Achieve Statehood And Freedom.