Why the Muslims Misjudged Us talks about how little the Muslim world understands about America.
Few in the Middle East have a clue about the nature, origins, or history of democracy, a word that, along with its family ("constitution," "freedom," and "citizen"), has no history in the Arab vocabulary, or indeed any philological pedigree in any language other than Greek and Latin and their modern European offspring.
They also have some interesting thoughts on the Palestinian Authority.
Israel does not really know to what degree the Palestinian authorities have a real constituency, because the people of the West Bank themselves do not know either -- inasmuch as they cannot debate one another on domestic television or campaign on the streets for alternate policies. Mr. Arafat assumed power by Western fiat; when he finally was allowed to hold real and periodic elections in his homeland, he simply perpetuated autocracy -- as corrupt as it is brutal.
This is one more article on the moral and political failures of Islam. There seem to be alot of these lately. There was also a great article the December 24th Time magazine by Charles Krauthammer titled How to Win a Holy War (don't bother to click -- it's $2.50 to read the article). I think I'd vote for a President who vowed to clean up the Muslim world. I'm not sure how we'd do that exactly but it would be a noble goal.