Shifting role of US in Middle East is like ‘raising a teenager’, ambassador says
Shifting role of US in Middle East is like ‘raising a teenager’, ambassador says The US no longer wants its “grand bargain” with the Arabian Gulf, providing security in exchange for oil, and is “transitioning” to a new approach, in a major shift that is “like raising a teenager”, a senior US official and confidant of President Donald Trump said. “America as the guarantor to the world, for the last 80 years, it is no longer there,” Tom Barrack, the US ambassador to Turkey and Trump’s special e…
