The job of running U.S. foreign policy is far, far harder than most Americans have ever spent time considering. It's a near-impossibility in an age when you have to manage superpowers, super-corporations, super-empowered individuals and networks, superstorms, super-failing states and super-intelligence—all intermingling with one another.
In the Cold War, heroic diplomacy was always within reach. Think of Henry Kissinger... He needed just three dimes, an airplane and a few months of shuttle diplomacy to put together the historic post-1973 October war disengagement agreements.
Antony Blinken was not so lucky when he became the 71st secretary of state in 2021. Blinken and his team have played a difficult hand well, but the Middle East has been transformed.
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