The Art of the Gulf: Trump’s Tactical Feint in Middle East Diplomacy

President Donald J. Trump’s foreign policy instinct has long been derided by Beltway mandarins as unserious or improvisational. Yet time and again, he has demonstrated a knack for intuitive statecraft that outpaces their sterile diplomacy. His recent flirtation with renaming the Persian Gulf the “Arabian Gulf” was no gaffe. It was, rather, a calculated …