Pivoting to Asia Doesn’t Get You Out of the Middle East | Center for Strategic and International Studies

Pivoting to Asia Doesn’t Get You Out of the Middle East | Center for Strategic and International Studies: Of all of President Donald Trump’s foreign policy ideas, the one that may enjoy the broadest public consensus is that the United States has been overcommitted to the Middle East. Seemingly endless U.S. military engagements, intractable problems, and rising energy self-sufficiency all push a growing number of Americans to argue for a far lighter footprint there, in favor of a