President Trump inherits Obama's legacy of "perpetual warfare" in the region.
"Obama's legacy ... is one of near-total failure," says Walt
Barack Obama, who shied away from large-scale military intervention in favour of more covert drone warfare, will end his eight years of presidency with a deeply controversial legacy, and at a time when the region faces myriad competing crises. Conflicts are raging in Syria , Iraq, Yemen and Libya; major attacks have been staged in Tunisia, Turkey and Lebanon; and an uprising has been simmering among residents of the occupied West Bank, while Palestinians in Gaza have barely begun to recover from Israel's 2014 bombing campaign.
"Obama's legacy ... is one of near-total failure," Stephen Walt, an international affairs professor at Harvard's Kennedy
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