Squaring Circles? Tillerson's Failed Middle East Sojourn

Before he headed to the Middle East on his five-country journey, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was preparing himself for an unpleasant encounter with an angry Turkish president, a sullen Egyptian president, and a tight-fisted international community gathered in Kuwait clearly reluctant to commit billions of dollars to rebuild Iraq.

Squaring Circles? Tillerson's Failed Middle East Sojourn
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson prepares for a meeting of a U.S.-led coalition fighting against the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant in Kuwait City, Feb. 13. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)

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