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But all of us learned a great deal along the way about our profession, about the middle east, and about the promise of american leadership. Through sams remarkable journey and my own checkered thirtythree year career in the foreign service, i have learned that the middle east is a place where pessimists seldom lack for either company or validation, where skeptics hardly ever seem wrong. It is a place where american policymakers often learn humility the hard way, a place where you can most easily see the wisdom in Winston Churchills famous comment that what he liked most about americans was that they usually did the right thing in the end. They just liked to exhaust all the alternatives first. Ive learned that stability is not a static phenomenon, and that regimes which do not offer their citizens a sense of political dignity and economic possibility ultimately become brittle and break. Ive learned that change in the middle east is rarely neat or linear, but often messy and cruel, and d

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