US-Middle East policy dilemmas are severe, unresolved

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  • Perennial policy dilemmas
  • Bush approach
  • Obama strategy
  • Contradictory positions?
  • Struggle to engage with Islamists
  • US-Gulf challenges
  • No 'Obama doctrine'

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