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Article: The future of the Middle East: strategic implications for the United States.(Symposium: The Future of the Middle East)
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- Middle East Policy
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- September 22, 2007
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The following is an edited transcript of the forty-ninth in a series of Capitol Hill conferences convened by the Middle East Policy Council The meeting was held on June 26, 2007, in Room 1334 of the Longworth Building with Chas. W. Freeman, Jr., presiding.
CHAS. W. FREEMAN, JR.: president, Middle East Policy Council
The subject we are talking about today wasn't of interest to many people not so long ago, but, quite tragically, it has now become almost a national obsession in the United States. The Middle East is not a pretty picture for American foreign policy. On the other hand, our backing of Israel's efforts to pacify the Palestinians rather than ...