One of the reasons the United States is now in the process of adjusting its policies and relations with key Middle Eastern states, notably Iran, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Israel and Egypt, is that the contradictions of the past have simply accumulated to such a large extent that Washington probably finds it difficult to conduct any kind of coherent foreign policy at all. The U.S. has gotten itself into a situation where all its key allies in the region – Arabs, Iranians, Turks and Israelis – have major problems and disagreements with it, and are not afraid to spell these out in public in some cases.
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