251. Rethinking U.S Strategy in the Middle East
- Author:
- Joe Barnes
- Publication Date:
- 12-2018
- Content Type:
- Special Report
- Abstract:
- President Barack Obama’s Middle East policies have come under increasingly sharp criticism since the emergence of ISIL as a threat to Iraq during the summer of 2014. Some of this criticism has come from predictable quarters: neoconservatives and liberal interventionists who have long been critical of the Obama administration’s relatively “soft touch” approach to the region, notably its hesitance to get the United States more deeply involved in the Syrian civil war. But a sense of drift in U.S. policy toward the Middle East has spread to the general public, as well.
- Topic:
- International Affairs
- Political Geography:
- Middle East