Trump’s ‘principled realism’ is anything but
He has bought into an Arab narrative of an inevitable conflict between Iran and the Arab world, and has all but promised the U.S. would fight on the Arab side.

LONDON, U.K.—The media mostly missed it (or chose to ignore it as a piece of meaningless rhetoric), but Donald Trump proclaimed a new doctrine in his speech to the assembled leaders of the Muslim world in Saudi Arabia earlier this month. It goes by the name of “principled realism,” although it...
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