the challenge. this book of the week is the forgotten ally. if you want to understand how history has shaped china, the most important and strangely mostly forgotten story is about its role in world war ii. as america s ally. mitter, an oxford don, describes how its communism, anti-japanese nationalism, was forged in the fires of that terrible conflict. now, for the last look. six months ago, nobody would have guessed that u.s.-iranian relations would be at the held tivly high point they are today. if you thought iranians would be pleased with the productive talks with the u.s. think again. these billboards have recently popped up around tehran. there are a couple of different version, all showing an iranian and an american seated at a negotiating table.
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going on? you wrote a wonderful book about saudi arabia. i think they have given up on us. they understand in a tribal society like saudi arabia weakness brings not only contempt, but the risk of aggression. and they don t want to walk around that nasty neighborhood holding hands with the cowardly united states. i mean, that s their view. we haven t we let mubarak go. we ditherred for weeks over was the coup in egypt that threw out the muslim brotherhood a coup, and should we end military assistance. and then, finally, did. and then, in syria, we sort of said we re going to help them, but we haven t. and then the president said he was going to bomb them, retaliate for their use of chemical weapons, and whipped around and hugged the russians and hoped that they can get rid of the chemical weapons.
environment? not on the foreign office. yes, people in countries like pakistan, always assume a long history of military intervention and politics, authorities will be listened to by the intelligence service. we don t like it, but we live with it. as far as the u.s. listening is concerned, i agree with brett that some of this has to be explained. i think that this administration has been relatively weak in dealing both with allies and adversaries. it has not been able to tell the adversaries it means business with them, and being able to confront them. and it has not been able to reassure allies about many things, and, therefore, something like this becomes a bigger problem in the absence of communication. let s talk about the biggest ally, saudi arabia. in the arab world. did something bizarre, because after lobbying for the seat on the security council, they abruptly turned around and said, we don t want it. ostensibly protesting syria, iran, the lack of a palestinian state. what