The Importance of Soft Power in the Middle East

Kushner and the Trump administration outsourced Middle Eastern policy to Israel effectively, he says. "It's just kind of at the end of the day kind of dumb," Kushner adds. The U.S. still has considerable soft power with Britain it did with America in the past, Netanyahu argues. But that doesn't mean American influence hasn't been dismayed by its recent policies on Syria or other issues.