Commentary: The Saudi Arabia-Pakistan-Turkey deal provides the US with an opportunity
Every U.S. president over the last 20 years has tried to move the United States out of the Middle East, an area so steeped in bad history and poor policy that one wonders why Washington bothers to be involved in the region at all. Barack Obama campaigned on ending the George W. Bush-era war in Iraq, only to direct a surge of 50,000 U.S. troops into Afghanistan and return the U.S. military to ...