The driving motivation of a new American endeavor in Iraq and in neighboring Arab lands should be modernizing the Arab world.
Haiti is the kind of place that grabs your heart, and never lets go. . . When you arrive in Port-au-Prince, the first thing that strikes you is how vibrant the colors are. Buses, buildings, fences, clothing, everything is brightly painted in primary hues. On closer inspection, you see the reality behind this brightly colored landscape: a dark, grinding poverty, the worst in the Western hemisphere.