Why Obama — and every president since Carter — failed to transform the Middle East: Sean Illing interviews Andrew Bacevich, author of America’s War for the Greater Middle East. Arab winter: With Trump’s election, civil society and democratic forces in Egypt and elsewhere have really lost something. The Trump administration’s Islamophobic holy grail: Designating the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist group would cripple U.S. foreign policy and launch a domestic smear campaign. The Arab world’s American savior complex: The Middle East may be cheering Trump’s Syria strike today, but they’ll be cursing his name the next. White House officials push for widening war in Syria over Pentagon objections. How to lose the next war in the Middle East.
