Grading Obama’s Middle East Strategy (Sensibly): Part I

... own disagreements with it quite vocally and publicly on matters from Syria to Israel/Palestine, among others. So I write this neither as an apologist nor as a hater, but... ... basic points, though, need to be reiterated before we launch into a discussion here: Obama took office in January, 2009, and had to deal with a Middle East that had become... ... Hosni Mubarak in Egypt to Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel, from Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran to (the recently departed) King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia and also from the actions...