It is heartening to see the integration of democracy and Islam taking place in three huge countries whose Muslim populations make up somewhere between a quarter and a third of the world's entire Muslim populace. 
"We're going to stay with it as long as I'm in this office... Four years from now, I think, hopefully, people will judge that body of work and say: 'This is a big ocean liner. It's not a speedboat. It doesn't turn around immediately. But we're in a better place because of the decisions that we made'."
President Obama has sent a mixed message so far about public education, but he does seem to recognize that change is needed — including change that might not please some of his (and his party’s) strongest special-interest supporters...
