Wajid Ali Syed

Journalist and documentary producer

The world's most wanted terrorist was a block away from the army garrison. This incident is not the first time the Pakistan Army has made claims that strained credulity.

Stuart Diamond

Professor, The Wharton School; Author, 'Getting More: How You Can Negotiate to Succeed in Work & Life'

Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden. Two guys cost a trillion dollars. Is there a better way to spend our money?

Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi

UAE-based commentator on Arab affairs

For ten years millions of Arabs were held hostage due to the acts of a minority. During this time tens of thousands of lives were lost in senseless violence that only a megalomaniac would be able to justify.

James Denselow

Writer, Middle East geopolitical and security issues

Now that Osama bin Laden is dead, serious questions will be asked of whether Pakistan deserves to remain at the top of the threats tree.

Sharmine Narwani

Senior Associate, St. Antony's College, Oxford University

I'm not arguing that Shiites have a lot in common with rodents and insects. But you wouldn't know it by watching Bahrainis and Saudis snuff them out with barely a peep from Western and majority-Sunni Arab nations.

Joshua Gleis

Analyst, Consultant, Author

Only in Syria, where a growing number of citizens are rising up against the Assad regime, has the United States and the rest of the western world failed to develop or convey any type of policy whatsoever.

Ben Cole

Technologist & Adventurer

Technology has not only made it possible for people around the world to peer into lives and circumstances across the globe, it's made many worldwide events impossible to ignore.

David Harris

Executive Director, AJC; Senior Associate, St. Antony's College, Oxford (2009-11)

Goldstone shouldn't be the only one looking at himself in the mirror and asking how he managed to get it so wrong and at such cost.

Raghida Dergham

Columnist and Senior Diplomatic Correspondent, Al Hayat

Clearly, this administration has opted to be populist, breaking away with traditional U.S. foreign policy, whose cornerstone was developing relations with governments. But words are not always coupled with deeds everywhere.

James Zogby

President, Arab American Institute; author, 'Arab Voices'

The developments that have unfolded since Tunisia have all been generated internally, putting to rest the patronizing mythology that change could only come to the Arab World if induced by external, Western pressure.

Avi Spiegel

Political Science Professor, Fellow of International Security and Law, Middle East Analyst

The limited intervention in Libya averted a humanitarian disaster, but it also killed the Arab Spring.

Sharmine Narwani

Senior Associate, St. Antony's College, Oxford University

Three issues have plagued the region for decades and threaten to derail progress at every turn. I call them the Mideast's "Stink Bombs" -- hyper-divisive issues that inflame passions and serve a politicized minority only.

Kimberly Abbott

Communications Director for North America at the International Crisis Group

I spoke with April Longley Alley, Crisis Group's Senior Arabian Peninsula Analyst, about the latest developments in Yemen and what should happen to ensure that the protest movement yields genuine change.

Daniel Dicker

Oil trader; CNBC Contributor and TheStreet.com columnist; Author, 'Oil’s Endless Bid'

The curve of oil prices looks strikingly less like 2008, and much more like the market I saw in 1991, during the run-up to war in Kuwait.

Rep. Mike Honda

U.S. Representative for California's 15th District

Consistency provides America with protection by undermining the criticism used to rally recruits in counter-U.S. efforts. An inconsistent track record -- humanitarian intervention in some cases but not others -- gives fodder to our foes.

Jesse Larner

New York-based writer on politics and culture

Khan is a warm, thoughtful, and charismatic person, who very clearly explained her commitment both to democracy and open society.