News Snapshot:
With every recent presidency, the perceived urgency of disentangling the US from the Middle East has risen in tandem with the perceived severity of threats in other theaters. For Barack Obama, Donald Trump, and now Joe Biden, however, regional realities have remained stubbornly at odds with global strategy. Today, Biden's administration aims to stabilize US policy in the Middle East (if not to stabilize the region itself) so it can focus on a Chinese challenge that will not wait. But across a clutch of key issues — involving Afghanistan, Iran and Saudi Arabia, particularly — the administration may face a...
