A New Authoritarian Era in the Mideast?

A New Authoritarian Era in the Mideast?

By embracing Syria’s Sharaa, Trump sanctifies Arab autocracy.

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By Michael Hirsh* – Foreign Policy By embracing Syria’s Sharaa, Trump sanctifies Arab autocracy.  The meeting this week between a U.S. president who doesn’t care a fig for democracy and a former anti-American jihadist who is swiftly discovering that democracy isn’t likely to work in his country—war-torn Syria—amounted to more than a stunning optic. It also felt like a huge farewell—a valediction for an entire generation of failed U.S. policy in …

Trump meets Syria’s former-insurgent-turned-leader in Saudi Arabia

Ahmad al-Sharaa spent years imprisoned by US forces after being captured in Iraq.