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
Never, i think it is fair to say, since the establishment of this government have i not known whos not. Its not clear that crown prince, can take over. You have that succession at a time when they are reaching the end of the brothers are going to have to confront the question of going to the next generation. That happens at a moment when tensions with the United States is as high as it has been certainly sent 2001 and our influence at the top in saudi arabia is i think as small as it has been in a very long time. Thats an unfortunate combination of events. I should stop there. Rate, thank you, lee. At the outset, i want to say happy holidays to you all, especially those watching on cspan on the rebroadcast. If youre watching this, you should be watching its a wonderful life. Thats what ill be doing. We hope we have a good discussion here. Second, thank you to the Hudson Institute and from the work you do. Im obviously from a centerleft ink tank, but i dont agree with a lot of what you
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