Richard N. Haass: “The future is going to be determined on the streets of Syria's cities, not in a speech given by the President of the…”

This is a civil war. Whether you think it was humanitarian intervention or not, this is a civil war.

The American people are sick and tired of war.

We ought to have a race to the top, not a race to the bottom.

The disconnect or the gap between the pace of political change which is now going quite quickly, and the scale of the economic problems, people should be worried about how Egypt is going to go.