Forget for a moment the manner in which Donald Trump has sold out the Kurds during an admiring late-night call with Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s strongman; his US troop withdrawal, which caught White House advisers by surprise: the bombastic tweets that followed. All these were vintage Mr Trump. But we should not let the noise obscure the signal. America has been trying to extricate itself from the Middle East for years. Mr Trump is only following in the footsteps of Barack Obama.
暫且忘卻唐納德?特朗普(Donald Trump)在與土耳其強人總統雷杰普?塔伊普?埃爾多安(Recep Tayyip Erdogan)深夜通話時如何出賣庫爾德人;他做出的撤出美軍部隊的決定如何讓白宮顧問們措手不及;以及他隨后發表的推文如何夸大其詞。這些都是典型的特朗普做派。但我們不應讓噪音掩蓋住信號。美國多年來一直在設法從中東抽身。特朗普只是在跟隨巴拉克?奧巴馬(Barack Obama)的腳步。