Isn't it true that the best way to influence someone is to become their friend and speak to them with respect rather than condemn them and talk down to them?  In the case of both the Arabs and the Russians, the road to obtaining peace and harmony might just be making them true friends.  The notion of live and let live might be the best approach.  We went into Iraq to instill democracy for the benefit of the people (and get rid of the nonexistent WMD).  In the end, we directly and indirectly contributed to the deaths and dislocation of hundreds of thousands of people.  In our "concern" for the people's well being we killed so many of them.  Live and let live is criticized because some feel we must impose our values and system on others (just like Islam and Christianity).  Yet how many deaths are we hypocritically going to cause in order to set other countries on the right path?