Thank you for the important discourse in the comments on our website to my February 13th article. I’m learning a lot about myself, and I’m continuing to challenge my beliefs and search out the areas where I’m unknowingly biased.

In addition to reading all of your comments, talking with people who disagree with me, and reading as much as I can, I have interviewed activists doing the work on the ground, and a policy scholar who studies why the US has failed to broker peace and how our involveme...