" ... President Donald Trump’s ham-fisted retreat from soft power and U.S. moral responsibility, coupled tightly with his proposed slashing of USAID and State Department funding,..."

Thanks for the cheap shot at Trump ! Why exactly is he responsible ?!
Never mind .... " Canada is going to lead "
The current fiasco in the region is entirely self inflicted: grotesque overpopulation, tribal and sectarian civil war, resultant desertification of an already marginal ecosystem .... etc. This has been ongoing as long as I can remember - any foreign aid merely sustains a region of cultural dysfunction without clarifying a long term solution .....

This type of article is mere filler in the guilt trip industry.