Katty Kay observes that President Trump's recent diplomatic activities in the Middle East represent a return to more conventional American foreign policy.

“some of the things that are happening in the Middle East this week and thought, actually, you know what, some of this is exactly what Joe Biden would have done. It looks more like conventional American foreign policy.”

The prior U.S. approach to Middle East diplomacy was based on stale conventional wisdom that increased regional misery and failed to produce results.

“what we recognized was that virtually everything that was in The Playbook of the state department for the past 50 years which was just wrong it was just wrong it was stale it was it had done nothing but increased the misery of of the peoples living in the region”

The U.S. must enforce a regional ceasefire and restrain Israeli military actions if they want to achieve a sustainable diplomatic deal with Iran.

“But what I do believe though is that if there isn't any restraint on Israel, if there isn't an uh an enforcement of Israel abiding by a regional ceasefire, then I don't think there will be a deal at all.”