Editor's note: The following is the text of a speech given to the Perdana Global Peace Forum in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on Dec. 16, 2005. I wish to thank Tun Dr. Mahathir and the Malaysian peace groups for organizing this historic event. The themes of this conference...

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - At the invitation of the Perdana Peace Foundation, I spent the week attending their Global Peace Forum. The foundation was started by Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, the former prime minister of Malaysia, who was also the keynote speaker at the...