“We just got back from the Middle East,” President Trump said to the president of Israel after his flight from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to Tel Aviv, the capital of another Middle Eastern country. Well, if Washington is a swamp, then the Middle East is the Everglades, and the alligators rolled out the red carpet. The success – so far – of the president’s Middle East trip stands on the ashes of Obama’s failures. It’s easy to forget that for all Obama’s alleged expertise, his foray into the Middle East foundered on his arrogance and naiveté. He bought into the idea that the road to stability and peace in the Middle East went through Jerusalem.

Source: Los Angeles Times May 22, 2017 18:33 UTC