OP-ED: A new partner in the Mideast, By Stephen Kinzer, Boston Globe, March 14, 2008

A nice summation of how to get our way the fastest in the region. Key thing in general, Vali Nasr would argue, is that, if we want democracy to emerge on some level over time, we need to get a lot more comfortable with the reality of the Shia revival. They're half the population from Lebanon to Pakistan.