Freeman brings to bear his considerable experience as a
senior-level U.S. diplomat in this collection of addresses he has
delivered in recent years, which appear designed to entertain as much as
to enlighten. His main message is that the United States has made
fundamental and perhaps irreversible blunders in its Middle East policy,
of which its “abject failure” to secure peace for Israel and statehood
for the Palestinians is the most egregious. Freeman pins the blame for
that on the subservience of U.S. policymakers to self-destructive,
obdurate counterparts in Israel. More generally, Freeman laments what he
considers to be Washington’s abandonment of diplomacy in favor of
war-making and sanctions regimes that he regards as counterproductive.
And then there is the damage at home in the United States: conflicts in
the Middle East and elsewhere, Freeman argues, have led to the erosion
of constitutional norms of privacy and put the country on the path to
becoming a garrison state.
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/capsule-review/2016-10-12/america-s-continuing-misadventures-middle-east
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