Trump has his global crisis, and he is woefully unprepared
Predicting what the Trump administration will do is a fool's errand. What seems worth pointing out, however, is just how bad the US position looks on the Middle East chessboard.
One of the mantras about President Donald Trump's first few years in office is that he has not faced a real foreign policy crisis.
This requires a very narrow definition of "crisis" - there are many, many examples of slow-motion debacles Trump has done little to stop - but now is not the time to quibble. One could make a case that Trump had not faced a global crisis not of his own making for his first 2½ years in office.
