The issue focused on an article in Time Magazine about the United States and the Arab world's relations since the beginning of World War I.

In it, author and professor Richard Burt wrote that U.S. relations with the Arab world since World War I have been a "strategic failure" because: the U.S. had "no clear strategy to deal with Arab nationalism and Islamic extremism."

The article went on to say: "The U.S. has failed to build strong relationships