The White House, in Washington. (Credit: Saul Loeb/AFP)
The United States is seeking to impose new political and strategic realities in the Middle East through an approach that, in some symbolic respects, recalls the 1950s — from the Baghdad Pact to the Eisenhower Doctrine — even though the region's states have since undergone profound transformations.Whereas the Eisenhower Doctrine was designed to contain the Soviet Union and communism, Donald Trump — who drew inspiration from the Monroe Doctrine for Latin America and even sought to rebrand it the "Donroe Doctrine" — now appears to be reviving the spirit of the Eisenhower Doctrine to counter China and consolidate U.S. influence in the Middle East through a military posture and a network of regional alliances. What's on the table for the Lebanese president? Regional escalation, the fate of southern Lebanon: Joseph Aoun’s...
The United States is seeking to impose new political and strategic realities in the Middle East through an approach that, in some symbolic respects, recalls the 1950s — from the Baghdad Pact to the Eisenhower Doctrine — even though the region's states have since undergone profound transformations.Whereas the Eisenhower Doctrine was designed to contain the Soviet Union and communism, Donald Trump — who drew inspiration from the Monroe Doctrine for Latin America and even sought to rebrand it the "Donroe Doctrine" — now appears to be reviving the spirit of the Eisenhower Doctrine to counter China and consolidate U.S. influence in the Middle East through a military posture and a network of regional alliances. What's on the table for the Lebanese president? Regional escalation, the fate of southern Lebanon: Joseph...
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