🔶 Tom Barrack: U.S. interventions in the Middle East have gone wrong

The United States is moving away from the traditional model of “security in exchange for oil” in the Middle East and is no longer seeking to dominate the region.

On Tuesday, October 20, Tom Barrack, the U.S. ambassador to Turkey and the country’s special envoy on Syria, said this at the Doha Global Security Forum, stating that after years of efforts to change the structures of governments in different Middle Eastern countries, Washington does not intend to abandon the region, but rather to review its role there.

Barrack said: “The U.S. no longer wants to have the Middle East under its control. The goal is not to control the region, but to maintain a presence there. We do not leave the region.”

He added that the countries in the region are gradually realizing the limits of America’s ability to play a role. According to him, the countries of the region are increasingly saying, “Alright, I can’t rely on the United States to solve all of my problems.”