ate practically everyone involve in this process, the young people in the streets, not to mention america s other allies in the region, saudi arabia and importantly israel where i was last week. and i have to say the mood there at the security conference was extremely negative. there was a strong feeling that the united states had no clue as to what was happening, what its policy was and i think more importantly what it s grand strategy is and my pain point is that there doesn t maksim to se strategy right now in the middle east. a brilliant foreign policy analyst, monti python who said nobody expects the spanish inquisition, did anybody get this right? even the israelis, and you were with them, they didn t see this coming, so did anybody see this coming? that s not the case. if you take a scenario building