The Quiet Diplomat! (Trump's Lebanese relative)

To understand Masaad Boulos, it helps first to understand what he is not. He is not Tom Barrack — the private equity executive and longtime Trump associate whose enthusiasm for personal relationships with Arab Gulf leaders eventually produced a federal indictment for acting as an unregistered foreign agent. And he is most certainly not Senator Lindsey Graham, whose periodic eruptions about Lebanon’s army commander carry the diplomatic precision of a foghorn: loud enough to be heard everywhere, useful precisely nowhere. Boulos is none of these things. He is something considerably rarer in Washington’s ecosystem — a man who understands that...