A Policy in Tatters https://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/uncategorized/2014/08/a-policy-in-tatters-2/

August 18, 2014 | Walter Russell Mead

About the author: Walter Russell Mead is a distinguished fellow at Hudson Institute, professor of foreign affairs and humanities at Bard College, and editor-at-large of the American Interest. His books include Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World (2004), God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World (2007), and The Arc of a Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People (forthcoming 2017).

By putting its spurious outreach to Iran ahead of its traditional alliances, the U.S. has missed golden opportunities to stem the chaos in the Middle East.

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