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
Because on the ground does matter in these campaigns. So my fifth point here is, guys, we have a long ways to go. In critical terms, we are well, were five weeks out, four and a half weeks out from the election. Thats several political lifetimes. A lot of stuff can happen, this race the senate is not yet decided. You know, i think it may change a couple of times between now and election day. And dont take, you know, dont take to heart all these, everything saying, gee, republicans have that enthusiasm advantage. You know what . If the democrats ground game works and works well and they have unlimited number of states to do it in, six or eight states, that enthusiasm advantage may be wiped away by the democrat turnout operation. So this is, its a dead heat. Its a today up. I toss up. I agree with charlies as accessment of the states. Do we win colorado or iowa or both . Can we . How close is North Carolina going to be . All these states. Its a fascinating campaign, but we are a long way
And im looking forward to this because im tired of listening to myself. I guess between the two of them, for close to 70 years neil and i go back 30 odd years. These are folks i have enjoyed being with and love watching their work. They are two great pros and two great people. Let me do a nutshell of where i am and then i want to get neil and stan and talk about what they are seeing out there. If you go back to the early part of last year, there were two competing scenarios two theories of what the 2014 Midterm Elections could be about. One theory was some of the challenges facing the Republican Party in 2012 would flow into 2014 will stop the other was it would be a classic Midterm Election referendum on the incumbent president and all that entails. Two competing directions and it could have gone either way. In terms of challenges facing the Republican Party, some of them were with key voting groups and some of it was their own, some of the things they were doing. The challenge of min
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