Washington is a partisan and notoriously navel-gazing place. Diplomats, academics, and intellectuals often blame foreign policy failures on Presidents of the opposite party rather than on deliberate decisions by American adversaries. As hundreds of thousands of Kurds fled Turkish forces moving into Syria, and Trump’s domestic critics moved swiftly to blame him for the development, the President and some of his most vocal supporters blamed the Obama Administration’s naivety for laying the groundwork for the inevitable Turkish reaction. “Trump inherited from Obama a dysfunctional strategy for countering ISIS [the Islamic State],” Hudson Institute scholar Michael Doran wrote in the New …read more
Source:: The American Interest
