Hello 'Pussy' it's Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle and Pippi Longstocking:
Tweeting first and asking questions later is not a good way to make policy — especially in the Middle East. In a recent salvo, you took credit for a decision by one set of American partners — Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates — to sever relations with another, Qatar. It risks deepening a spat that could undermine the fight against the Islamic State. And it highlights the fragility of a proposed Middle Eastern alliance that you touted as the major achievement of your first foreign trip.
You seem more at home with Middle Eastern autocrats than you do with European democrats. Interests change and diverge; values do not. In their absence, an “Arab NATO” will prove to be a hollow enterprise.
