finally, sir nigel, with regards to relationship of the u.s.nt to failures in their eyes, the falklands, you like a perhaps our attempts at climate change, perhaps the early stages of the international arms trade treaty, et cetera. in your time when you were there, can you point to, and i'm sure you can, but highlight for the benefit, successes and failures at the tempting to get the u.s. to agree with us on something that was in our interest but where we had to make the argument. >> some of my examples are actually a bit of each. there are things we didn't initially succeed but try try and try again. sometimes you get success in the end. i hesitate to mention this with mr. stewart here, but i think on the issue of afghanistan and the emphasis to be given to negotiations and reconciliation, ma that was something which the previous british government put emphasis on, got relatively little traction with the bush administration, began slowly with the obama administration, but it did become a central part of the administration's policy from year on

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