For an administration apparently convinced that the United States has been on the receiving end of outrageously one-sided deals via alliances globally, it is curious that the Arab partners being wooed by Pompeo were not put on sharp notice about obligations of their own, beyond oblique and brief references to..…

Dollars that might otherwise be used for military purposes and dollars that come from foreign aid could be put to work subsidizing new housing in new Arab Muslim cities instead of going into the pockets of Abbas or Hamas. In Egypt the new city should be near Cairo. In Jordan, it could be..…

Perhaps with the exception of Tunisia, were any of the leaders ousted in the Arab Spring replaced by genuine democrats? In Egypt, for example, the military dictatorship has merely had a change of name and face – Mubarak replaced a short while later by Field Marshall al-Sisi, who gained..…