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Perspective: America needs new friends in the Middle East
After decades of war, the United States is pivoting from the Middle East, gearing itself for great power competition with China and Russia. But recent events bring to mind Al Pacino’s famous line from Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather Part III: “Just …