if you want to look at machiavellian, effective machiavellian diplomacy in our time, look at china. >> yes, ma'am. >> you seem to indicate that american involvement and the problems in palestine many years ago, i thought it'd been chiefly the british who were handling that come are settling at with the balfour declaration and the palestinian mandate. would you tell me, please, what was the american involvement? >> i apologize if i gave you the wrong impression. what i said was that henry cabot lodge warned against our involvement in that situation. you are quite correct that it was the british who crafted jordan and, the president of saudi arabia, and really failed to help their clients, the people, the hashemites who would help to defeat the turks during the war and let the wahhabi's, the south family, defeat, which made necessary the establishment of jordan, and of iraq. but no, this was a british, certainly british thing. and, of course, the balfour declaration and the failure to support that, again, we are not the only power that has practiced that diplomacy. >> thank you very muc

if you want to look at machiavellian -- effective machiavellian diplomacy in our times look to china. >> one more question. >> yes, ma'am. >> you seem to indicate that american involvement in the problems in palestine many years ago, chiefly the british who were handling that are handling it with the bell for declaration and the palestinian mandate, would you tell me, please, what was the american involvement? >> i apologize if i gave you the wrong impression. what i said was that henry taub that large warned against our involvement in that situation. you are quite correct that it was the british who crafted jordan and present-day saudi arabia and really failed to help their clients, the people whom the hashimites had helped to defeat the turks during the war and let the wahhabis of the match family defeat was made necessary the establishment of jordan and iraq. this was a british thing. and, of course, the declaration and the failure to support that. again, we are not the only power that has practiced diplomacy. [applauding] >> to find out more about the paolucci/bagehot book award o

chris: very machiavellian, by the way. very smart. >> pelosi, pelosi, pelosi. chris: should not have stayed. >> the democrats do best with the core constituency, working people of this country. they need someone who reflects working people in the middle of the country to lead them. you know, for reasons, you know, it doesn't make a difference whether it's true or not but people see pelosi as sophisticated, san francisco, out of the mainstream, she was who the republicans ran against all year. not barack obama. and i think that her staying on was an act of hubris. >> i think the democrats loss the house for other reasons than just nancy pelosi. crs what did you think about what joe just said? >> i think joe's absolutely right. but i would say that the biggest mistake of the year was sharon engle, who was running against harry reid in nevada, putting on a frankly racist ad about immigration against hispanics. what planet is she on, if the republicans are going to have anchance of being a true majority party, they're going to need a huge percentage of the hispanic

japan and meanwhile intimidating the lesser powers and a very subtle game in korea. 812 look at machiavellian, effective teethirty diplomacy, look at china. >> you seem to indicate american involvement and that the problems in palestine i thought it meant for the british who handle that with the bell for declaration that would you tell me what is the american involvement? >> i apologize if i gave you the wrong impression. what i said henry cabot lodge warned against our involvement in that situation you are quite correct it was the british to crafted jordan of failed to help their clients to feats the turks during the war and what the wahhabi defeat which made it necessary the establishment from iraq. this was a british. and of course, the failure to support that, again, we're not the only power that has practiced diplomacy. [applause] >> host: realistically speaking is there at prospect weapons onear the planet? >> guest: i think so we have lost our utilities that the cost of $50 billion per.s. year since obama announced it is the official u.s. policy is just a matter ofm working al security

i really think to some degree-- and maybe its machiavellian of me to believe this-- i think that the white house wanted to get a second stimulus and this turned out to be kind of like it. it is $900 billion of unpaid for funding. but i've got to tell you, i don't think it was a particularly good deal. i don't think we got what we should have. and i think now we are starting to see a trend. maybe not for the next two years but we've now seen it for the last two years. we make compromises on stimulus, we make compromises on health care, we make compromises on taxes, all of which are... weaken the final product and all of which make it less fair for the middle-class and those struggling to make it. >> and i wouldn't be surprised if discussed by... disgust by the democrats is adding on the this agreement $250 to send to the seniors who haven't seen a cost of living adjustment in their social security for two years now. who are really struggling to pay their prescription drug costs and other expenses that they have. we would like the see the doors open a little bit for us to not necessari