At the council formulations and to serve in the Obama Administration as assistant to National Security council. He also served during the Clinton Administration visiting scholar including harvard and columbia and the International Institute for strategic studies in london and numerous articles on National Strategic affairs and the author of nine previous books. Including how enemies become friends. Walter russell mead at the Hudson Institute the global economist at the wall street journal professor of Foreign Affairs with the council of Foreign Relations and offers numerous books and widely recognized special providence and how it changed the world. I hope we have the chance for work entitled the United States is real and the fate of jewish people. And that to shield itself is the subject of the discussion tonight. Please welcome Walter Russell mead. Thank you for that introduction it is terrific to be here with charles i think ive known so many years now. Quite a while. Can certainly
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