What do you see as the next President's greatest foreign policy challenge that is not Iraq?  Was the basic question posed to a panel of journalists during a conference I attended sponsored by the Center for U.S. Global Engagement and the U.S. Global Leadership Campaign. 

According to Gerald Seib, the Washington Bureau Chief of the Wall Street Journal the answer is the United States relationship with the Islamic world.

Walter Pincus, the National Security Journalist for The Washington Post offered the opinion that the next administration needs to force a stop to seeing terrorism in everything and to stop reshaping our government and limiting our freedoms because of the threat of terrorists.

David Brooks, Op-Ed Columnist for The New York Times put up the category of failed nation-states around the globe as the number one foreign policy challenge to be faced 

Another part of the conference has surrogates representing Democatic Presidential Campaigns the following is Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) for Barack Obama

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