Forget for a moment the manner in which Donald Trump has sold out the Kurds during an admiring late-night call with Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s strongman; his US troop withdrawal, which caught White House advisers by surprise: the bombastic tweets that followed. All these were vintage Mr Trump. But we should not let the noise obscure the signal. America has been trying to extricate itself from the Middle East for years. Mr Trump is only following in the footsteps of Barack Obama.
暂且忘却唐纳德•特朗普(Donald Trump)在与土耳其强人总统雷杰普•塔伊普•埃尔多安(Recep Tayyip Erdogan)深夜通话时如何出卖库尔德人；他做出的撤出美军部队的决定如何让白宫顾问们措手不及；以及他随后发表的推文如何夸大其词。这些都是典型的特朗普做派。但我们不应让噪音掩盖住信号。美国多年来一直在设法从中东抽身。特朗普只是在跟随巴拉克•奥巴马(Barack Obama)的脚步。
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