Spinney said Trump’s Middle East policy was conflicting, confused and lacked consistency. University of Louvain Professor Jean Bricmont, an eminent philosopher and author, agreed that under Trump US policies on the Middle East lacked any guiding framework. "It is difficult to make sense of American policies in the Middle East because they do not have a coherent goal. In Syria, they support they support the Islamic State [Daesh] and so does Saudi Arabia explicitly and Israel more… clandestinely," Bricmont said. US policy toward the region was reminiscent of the chaos the United States inflicted on much of Southeast Asia in the era of the Vietnam War, Bricmont recalled.

Source: The North Africa Journal April 05, 2017 19:03 UTC