The next six months in Iraq—which will determine the prospects for democracy-building there—are the most important six months in U.S. foreign policy … - Thomas Friedman

Israel should really reflect on what's going on in Egypt. It does not want to be the Hosni Mubarak of the peace process.

I think we are in the end game. The next six to nine months are going to tell whether we can produce a decent outcome in Iraq.

After two years of traveling almost exclusively to Western Europe and the Middle East, Poland feels like a geopolitical spa. I visited here for just three days and got two years of anti-American bruises massaged out of me. Get this: people here actually tell you they like America—without whispering. What has gotten into these people? Have all their subscriptions to Le Monde Diplomatique expired? Haven't they gotten the word from Berlin and Paris? No, they haven't. In fact, Poland is the antidote to European anti-Americanism. Poland is to France what Advil is to a pain in the neck. Or as Michael Mandelbaum, the Johns Hopkins foreign affairs specialist, remarked after visiting Poland: "Poland is the most pro-American country in the world—including the United States."