Aaron David Miller is a Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment. A former Middle East peace negotiator for both Democratic and Republican administrations (1978-2003), he is the author of The Much Too Promised Land: America's Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli Peace and The End of Greatness: Why America Can't Have (and Doesn't Want) Another Great President.
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