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.
对于所有看不懂特朗普中东政策的人,迈克•蓬佩奥(Mike Pompeo)提供了一个有用的暗示。它来自蓬佩奥最近发表的一次重要的外交政策演讲,其中充满了相互矛盾的内容,有些近乎荒唐。如果说这篇演讲有任何有意义的政策主线,那就是凡是巴拉克•奥巴马(Barack Obama)支持的,现任美国总统唐纳德•特朗普(Donald Trump)都反对。一言以蔽之,特朗普的中东政策就是成为一个“反奥巴马”。