“From the point of view of mainstream US policymakers, Erdogan’s hostility toward Israel and outreach to Hamas appears to be ideologically motivated and an extension of a broader Islamist, disruptive agenda in the Middle East.”
“The O.I.G. report vindicates congressional concerns regarding the impact of these sales on innocent civilians… [But it] punted on…whether the threat stream cited by the administration rose to the level of an ‘emergency.'”
“In the case of the Trump administration, the gap between…relentless critical messaging on Iran’s human rights abuses and the general silence…of those same problems inside authoritarian Arab ally countries is really, really notable.”