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Article: Iraq, Iran, Israel and the eclipse of U.S. influence: what role for America now?(United States. Middle East Policy Council conference)
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- Middle East Policy
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- March 22, 2007
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The following is an edited transcript of the forty-seventh in a series of Capitol Hill conferences convened by the Middle East Policy Council. The meeting was held on January 19, 2007, at the New America Foundation, with Chas. W. Freeman, Jr., presiding.
CHAS. W. FREEMAN, JR.: president, Middle East Policy Council
We're here today to talk about some important issues affecting American standing, not just in the Middle East, but in the world at large. I think many Americans have a sense that there has been a loss of control on our part, that we are in a defensive and reactive rather than initiating mode, that many of our policies seem to be coming to dead ...