still trying to find new ways to been a hedgemon, and that s a huge difference and in that sense matters enormously who is out there, putting that face on the relationship. does it matter who your producers or? yes, it does matter. yes. i think it matters a great deal. what the secretary of state chooses to talk about, chooses to focus on, the people he or she chooses to appoint, matter a great deal in the details of policy. if you re asking a broader question, like there are these interests and you found me out. in that sense, i suppose not. there is in some ways, it s a narrow band. but the details matter a great deal. i think it s a way too narrow band. i do think there are interests that are determining our foreign policy. again, i come back to the
district in redistricting, cares strongly about it, understandably so. and the african-american community, which is the predominance of my district, i think it s a mixed feeling. but i think a lot of people relate with the palestinians. as being the underdogs and being like that and they see some ways, analogy to the struggle for civil rights. it s a mixed bag. but it s part of the whole agreement we ve got to come to on the budget and part of the budget that some people want to have cut out is foreign aid. but we are the world s number one country. and as the world s number one country, we have certain obligations, not just for trade and commerce, but for humanitarian reasons there are things going on right now in goma where we need to be involved in a humanitarian in a major way, because what s happening there is awful. we have to be involved. it affects the whole middle east. i ve traveled through the middle east and all the leaders there say what happens between israel and the pale
time. you had eight years of an administration that really gave up on trying to play the arbiter role, at which point the figure leaf kind of came away. the administration did a great job actually tactically, playing both of those roles in a way that they hadn t done at all during the first term, sending the secretary of state out to be the arbiter while the president could give the defender of israel speeches like that that s a tactical solution that doesn t get anywhere near the long-term structural problem that it isn t the same middle east that it was five years ago. what do you do instead? how do you serve the long-term interests of israel, especially when maybe many americans don t see israel s long-term interests the way and the u.s. long-term interests of having better relationships with egypt. we re not talking about the hundreds of people who died in syria over the time of gaza. so we ve got a long the administration did a great job on the short-term, but we ve got a long-t
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of the american-mubarak relationship. this goes back to something you said. it s a re-creation of the imperial egypt, or the pharaohnic egypt if you want to use a cliche. egypt wants to play that role and has been trying to play that role unsuccessfully with respect to syria and trying to recapture in diplomacy what the revolution did recapture in the arab popular imagination. so this is a place where u.s. interests, morsi and israeli interests, because you have some of the israeli right who say great, let s make gaza egypt s problem forever. so there s a funny way that everybody s power dynamic goes the same way here. of course, the big dissenter are the people in the streets of tahrir square. this goes back to your putin