Institution: | Retired U.S. Foreign Service officer and former president of the Middle East Policy Council (1997–2009). He was U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia during the Gulf War of 1991. The following is the text of his keynote address to the 20th Annual Arab‐U.S. Policymakers Conference, sponsored by the National Council on U.S. ‐Arab Relations, October 27, 2011. |