Have been and thank you to her cspan nokia and thank you for this wonderful panel with seleka and brent katulis. Elliott abrams was adviser for democracy strategy during the george w. Bush administration. Hes currently a senior fellow for middle Eastern Studies at the one Foreign Relations and the author most recently attested by psion the Bush Administration and israeli post any conflict. Brian katulis is that the process where he focuses on the middle east and north africa. His coauthor the prosperity agenda, with the world wants from america and what we need in return. Theres also a couple articles by Brian Katulis on the side Still Available about brians recent work on saudi arabia, which will fill us in a little bit. In the meantime, i wanted mr. Abrams to make a few comments and then brian and then we will have a discussion. Thanks. Thank you. Thank you all for being here today. I wanted to start by saying that some of the discussion at u. S. Saudi relations is over done, the sen