Ambassador Freeman, a retired U.S. Foreign Service Officer, is a senior fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University.  He served as U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia, 1989-92.  From 1997 to 2009, he was president and chairman of the board of the Middle East Policy Council. The following are updated remarks from his presentation at the Center for the National Interest, November 2, 2018, Washington, DC.