Nearing the end of his presidency, President Obama’s visit to the Gulf this week is a symbolic final gesture before he leaves office in January of his commitment to his Gulf partners over a year since he hosted a number of the GCC leaders at Camp David. However, Obama’s frank words in his interview with The Atlantic underline a leader who is equally deeply skeptical of his Gulf counterparts and of the post-1979 Washington consensus on America’s strategic position in the region.
https://english.alarabiya.net/en/views/news/middle-east/2016/04/19/Obama-visit-and-moving-Saudi-US-relations-beyond-mutual-ambivalence.html
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