For all those wondering about the Trump doctrine for the Middle East, Mike Pompeo has usefully provided a clue. It came last week in the form of an important foreign policy speech replete with contradictions and sometimes verging on absurdity. If there was any meaningful policy thread it was that US president Donald Trump stands against whatever Barack Obama stood for. The Trump doctrine for the Middle East is, very simply, being anti-Obama.
對于所有看不懂特朗普中東政策的人,邁克?蓬佩奧(Mike Pompeo)提供了一個有用的暗示。它來自蓬佩奧最近發表的一次重要的外交政策演講,其中充滿了相互矛盾的內容,有些近乎荒唐。如果說這篇演講有任何有意義的政策主線,那就是凡是巴拉克?奧巴馬(Barack Obama)支持的,現任美國總統唐納德?特朗普(Donald Trump)都反對。一言以蔽之,特朗普的中東政策就是成為一個“反奧巴馬”。