This article in the Telegraph echoes some of the pieces I have written over the past number of years: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/11605117/Has-America-lost-the-Middle-East.html
This is something of mine from more than two years ago: https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2014/03/downfall-obamas-middle-east-doctrine/
