Senior U.S. diplomat Tom Barrack stated at the Doha Global Security Forum that the United States is moving away from its traditional "oil for security" relationship with the Middle East and no longer seeks to dominate the region. However, he clarified that the U.S. is not abandoning the Middle East but rather re-evaluating its role. He questioned the effectiveness of previous interventions, noting that the U.S. had been involved in 23 regime changes in the Middle East, and suggested that each intervention to change figures or regimes seemed to be a mistake.