D advance. Lee you mean for the Islamic Republic . Or for saudi arabia. To say heres our chance. If the u. S. Does not want to get more involved, or for that matter, in terms of thinking signals and a time horizons, it becomes clear that the white house is going to move into hands that will differ. What do folks see here as primary horizons, given that. Lee we are going to shut down a couple of minutes, so lets make this our last round. If you would like to start . Ali the iranian party is more patient than most of us think. You know, i actually do agree that there is no sense of urgency from their point of view to start the revolution right now. They are patient. They are playing a game which they believe is serving their interests. And also they perceive the United States as a gradually declining world power in the propaganda of the revolutionary guards. But also, in their weekly magazines and journals. The United States today is just like Great Britain in the 1950s after world war i
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The individual, checks and balances, freedom, liberty and so forth. As i said, trying to channel arab nationalism into the western camp into the cold war. Ive in looking at how the United States thought about this and the strategy they developed, ive come to the conclusion that there was a kind of map that the americans had that was above all of their all of their policy discussions. A kind of paradigm. I actually started thinking this way. I worked, if i could give you a personal anecdote, i worked in the white house in the george w. Bush administration. And i had a had come from academia, which i thought prepared me for policy work. And then i went to the white house and realized, actually, it prepared me for nothing. But one of the things that really surprised me was somebody who considered himself an expert. In the middle east. At the highest levels have simple ideas in their head. And i dont mean that as insult. Im not saying simplistic, they just have simple ideas. And they have
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Ree rwanda, not just myself. It is a mission for rwanda. The acronym if you recall, it was una, the United Nations aid mission for rwanda but unfer doesnt really work so he takes the mi in mission and takes out the f. Hes really committed to that word for. He is a complex individual. I think having this is very full and very long account is helpful in kind of he charted very well the complexities of this thing on the ground and in his own personal motivations enter into this. I think that is very helpful in envisioning this thing from a holistic perspective. You had a comment. It kind of goes back to what we were talking about. He says he got a phone call from an american staffer. He doesnt even know who they are and what they do. What page are we on. 499. He tgoes he told me his estimates said it would take the death of rwanda to justify the death of an american soldiers. I mean thats what it is. It puts pedestal higher. Thats not the idea behind human rights. Thats what the United Na
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