http://www.csmonitor.com/slideshows/2006/homecoming2/index.html Why so stirring? Well, you wouldn't know it from the mainstream media, but Jill Carroll has become a kind of symbol over the last few weeks of a different American response to the world. Carroll went to the Mid East in 2002, in...

A majority of people around the world do not believe the world is locked in a "clash of civilizations" that will lead to violent conflict between Islam and the West, according to findings of a poll published Monday.The British Broadcasting Corp. World Service poll of...

Democrat John Edwards Wednesday repudiated the notion that there is a "global war on terror," calling it an ideological doctrine advanced by the Bush administration that has strained American military resources and emboldened terrorists.In a defense policy speech to the Council on Foreign Relations, Edwards...

The world is in urgent need of dialogue between Western and Muslim countries as a way to combat terrorism, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday as he opened an international forum."Never in our lifetime has there been a more desperate need for constructive and committed...

Questions if the events of September 11 confirm or contradict Huntington's Clash of Civilization thesis. Concludes that the recent reaction in the Middle East to America's self-styled 'war on terrorism' provides a timely case study for this debate.