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Friday, January 20, 2017

Jake Sullivan’s Five Hard Questions for Trump’s Mideast Policy

http://lobelog.com/jake-sullivans-five-hard-questions-for-trumps-mideast-policy/#more-37614

Jake Sullivan’s Five Hard Questions for Trump’s Mideast Policy

by Jim Lobe
On January 11, the Middle East Policy Council (MEPC) presented its 87th Capitol Hill Conference on the future of U.S. Middle East policy under the Trump administration. Speakers included Jake Sullivan, Hillary Clinton’s senior foreign policy advisor during the 2016 campaign and previously a top aide to both President Obama and Vice President Biden; Derek Chollet, a former assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs at the Pentagon, as well as a director at the National Security Council under Obama; Dmitiri Simes, president and CEO of the Center for the National Interest and publisher of The National Interest; and Beth Long, CEO of Metis Solutions and a former assistant secretary of defense for International Security Affairs under George W. Bush.
The video and transcript of the panel discussion can be found at the MEPC website here, but I found Sullivan’s presentation on the challenges and dilemmas faced by the incoming administration in the Middle East, particularly with respect to Iran, Syria, and Iraq particularly compelling and incisive. It is reproduced below with a few edits from the transcript. http://lobelog.com/jake-sullivans-five-hard-questions-for-trumps-mideast-policy/#more-37614

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