A major shift in US policy and attitudes toward the Middle East is underway

Evidence

Meanwhile it is not sufficiently realized that a major change is taking place in American government policy and more profoundly in American national at­ titudes towards the Middle East. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 1678

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Renewed Middle East instability derailed the US pivot to Asia; US Arab Spring policy oscillated between co-opting and counterrevolution, never democracy; US posture in the Middle East turned openly imperial after the 2001 attacks — Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being…, 990 (+1 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Renewed Middle East instability derailed the US pivot to Asia; US Arab Spring policy oscillated between co-opting and counterrevolution, never democracy; US posture in the Middle East turned openly imperial after the 2001 attacks — Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being…, 990 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• US foreign policy pivots were derailed by Middle East crises. #complicates (0.82)