National Security Advisor -- Even More Naive Than I

National security adviser Jake Sullivan said that the Middle East was the calmest it has been in decades, bringing to the forefront other controversial foreign policy decisions the Biden adviser has been involved with over the last decade.   "What we said is want to depressurize, de-escalate, and ultimately integrate the Middle East region," Sullivan said at The Atlantic Festival on Sept. 29.   "The war in Yemen is in its 19th month of truce, for now the Iranian attacks against U.S. forces have stopped, our presence in Iraq is stable, I emphasize for now because all of that can change and the Middle East region is quieter today than it has been in two decades," he said.