A major US daily has blasted what it described as President Donald Trump’s “distorted foreign policy” in accommodating notorious Arab dictators in the Persian Gulf — specifically the Bahraini monarch – while harshly censuring American European partners.
Pointing to clear consequences of Trump’s statements and impressions, The Washington Post insisted in one of its Friday editorials that a “good example” came on Tuesday “when Bahraini security forces stormed an opposition encampment just two days after Mr. Trump promised the Persian Gulf nation’s king that there would be no more “strain” between their governments.”
The influential newspaper then added, “Those strains, of course, concerned the Sunni regime’s crackdown on its Shia opposition, which has been escalating in recent months.”
Underlining Washington’s “challenging” ties with the Bahraini regime, which it described as “a key ally that hosts the US 5th…