America's Foreign Policy 'Experts' Are Projecting
Their Own Failures Onto Jared Kushner
Posted By: Moritz55, 5/23/2021 7:21:52 PM
For the past four years, there was no greater laughingstock in the American foreign policy cognoscenti than Jared Kushner. A full-on consensus reigned that cast the previous administration's Middle East policies as hopelessly ignorant and one-sided, a view that went unchallenged in the smart set's Op-Ed pages. There was no easier laugh to be had, no quicker way to pull a nodding agreement, than to mock the intelligence and good will of the former president's son-in-law, charged with crafting an American peace plan, and obviously in way over his head.
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An excellent defense of Jared Kushner in particular and Trump’s Middle East policy in general.