Wilful misunderstanding of Obama’s Middle East objectives

Why did US secretary of state Mike Pompeo travel to the heart of the Arab world to deliver a speech largely intended for partisan political consumption at home, asks David Eckels

US Secretary of state Mike Pompeo’s much-marketed speech in Cairo was rich in straw man fallacies while short on substantive specifics, a speech bursting with contradictions that reminded me just how hard it must be to speak for a president who has, at best, an incoherent foreign policy.