mr. abrams described the current tour of u.s. policy. they have labored in the field while i have merely observed in the act while i was watching the u.s. strategy and told that provided much of the impetus for this book. "the strong horse" is about regional transformation as well as transformation of my own thinking about the region and in particular why did these very good policies not succeed as intended or why has democracy not gone on in the abilities to a? a convenient explanation is these policies were the right ones supporting the democratic aspirations of arabs and standing again spoke beat and militants of those of repressive regimes. the problem that the pressure administration failed to implement them. the previous white house made mini hour -- heirs and many were deadly one specific piece of criticism is that americans should have provided more security and earlier than they did. my general criticism is three should've taken the arabs fears more seriously. we americans believe we were bringing democracy to the region while d

mr. abrams, the administration, mr. obama and secretary clinton, secretary clinton have been saying we should treat arabs with respect and i agree. we should treat people with respect. my questions are is, my question is, how do you treat arabs with respect while we are supporting the most absolute dictatorships that treat people with utter disrespect? >> a year ago i might have had to answer that question. [laughter] this is the time when you get up on the elevator like the national association or something. it is not an easy question obviously as you yourself know. because we believe that all of these government should have the respect of their people. all of these governments that we are talking about should earn the respect of the people. people should feel the governments are accountable to them and people should feel they have a chance to participate in public life and they have a chance to speak in their lives and they can affect the composition of the governments their election. sadly, many of these governments