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

... 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... ... were just as surprised as Americans at the Arab Spring, as well. As far as Israel/Palestine, Obama inherited a Bibi Netanyahu who had little-to-no desire to take the... ... Shiite political leadership—led by Iraq’s Prime Minister, Nouri Kemal al-Maliki—with the Sunni or Kurdish minorities, agreements that would be key in creating...