Shifting role of US in Middle East is like ‘raising a teenager’, ambassador says

Shifting role of US in Middle East is like ‘raising a teenager’, ambassador says The US no longer wants its “grand bargain” with the Arabian Gulf, providing security in exchange for oil, and is “transitioning” to a new approach, in a major shift that is “like raising a teenager”, a senior US official and confidant of President Donald Trump said. “America as the guarantor to the world, for the last 80 years, it is no…