"There is no Obama Doctrine. The only pivot that matters today in U.S. forign policy is not the pivot to Asia or China, it is the pivot to America." In the wake of the humiliating fall of the cities of Ramadi in Iraq and Palmyra in Syria- and as 2016 presidential campaigns kick-off- critics of U.S. foreign policy have grown louder both in the United States and abroad. Democrats and Republicans alike may be beginning to wonder if Obama knows what he is doing and has coherent strategy in the Middle East.