the french ambassador philip etienne who you saw on gps last week, announced his return to washington on twitter on thursday. he had been called back after a new security pact with the uk and australia. the anglo alliance to be a check of china s burgeoning power and effectiveness. now is the u.s. finally pivoting to asia? let me introduce today s all-star panel. richard haass is the president of the council on foreign relations, former director of policy planning at the state department. anne-marie slaughter held that same position and is the author of think tank america, author of renewal, from crisis to transformation in our lives, work and politics. ian bremmer is president of the
eurasia group. henry slaughter is president and ceo of think tank america, state department director of policy planning. her tenure was under president obama. richard, let me ask you about your former boss. you wrote of wonderful appreciation of him and touched on something i think was the hallmark of bush as a strategist, as a policymaker, which was a certain restraint. he was always able to be restrained so when everyone was telling him, as he put it, to go and dance on the soviet union s grave when the soviet union eventually surrendered at the end of the cold war, he was very restrained. he didn t want to rub gorbachev s nose in it, humiliate the russian people. when iraq happens, everybody told him, go to baghdad and he was very restrained about not doing things like that. do you think that came partly from a certain kind of, i don t know, kind of patrician mentality that said to him, i