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His trips, words and gestures are scrutinized. From Beirut to Damascus, via Amman and Riyadh, Tom Barrack now seems to be the rain and the good weather in the Middle East. Ambassador of the United States to Turkey since May, this quasi-shelter is also the special envoy of Donald Trump to Syria and Lebanon, where there is no American ambassador. In a few days, we saw him in Paris where he organized two parallel meetings on Syria-with the Kurds and the Israelis-after Damascus where he was to negotiate and then announce a cease-fire ending a week of bloody clashes in the Soueïda region between Druze forces and Syrian government. Between the two, the man had stopped in Beirut to follow with the Lebanese authorities the disarmament of Hezbollah. Omnipresent.
