On the world stage, many foreign policy experts say President Donald Trump has slashed and burned his way through international agreements and commitments on climate change, trade, troop deployments, public health, nuclear weapons and more. But for the mother of an American hostage held overseas, the outgoing U.S. president has been exactly the global "advocate and ally" she's needed. In Trump's waning days:Pentagon to withdraw troops from Afghanistan, IraqBut some foreign policy experts, ex-diplomats and even Trump's harshest opponents concede that for all of his "America First" nationalism and unorthodox style, Trump's various overseas initiatives have produced limited, qualified successes. Blinken previously argued the U.S. should be open to a "broader and riskier" military intervention in Syria to oust Assad. Some families coping with the detention of their relatives overseas say the Trump administration has not been tirelessly working on their behalf or all that engaged.

Source: Libya Today November 24, 2020 07:52 UTC