But the difference is neither Obama nor Bush wanted to make America great again.
It serves America’s national security and global interests to disarm the unfriendly Islamic powers...
Where is that happening?
Yep. If Trump really falls for the Russia/Assad crap, it’s over.
F’em. We are on our own.
Although they mention the rise of ISIS as a destabilizing threat, they say it’s good because it is helping to overthrow Assad.
They fail to mention that ISIS is responsible for millions of ‘migrants’ to Europe. (Or so they tell us.)
How good is a foreign policy if it may help to overthrow a democratically elected leader in a small middle eastern country, but destabilizes all of Europe, forever?
Sounds like a lose-lose situation.
Well, that's a sanitized way to put it. Much of the region is on fire and in anarchy, and the effects are spilling into areas far removed from the Middle East. What a smashing success that strategy has been.
I remember sitting in a doctor's office in 1999 reading an article about the neocon plan to wage war in the Middle East in order to pacify it and create a Pax Americana that would make it safe for commerce. I have always looked at our ME policy since then with that article in mind. i never cared for the plan then, and I don't care for the mess it has made. That is the status quo they want to preserve?
Everyone is falling for the same “solution” again, including Trump. The Middle East “solution” will never be resolved as long as there is a false religion called Islam. These false “religionists” do not want peace; they want the eradication of Israel.
Trump should just say this: “We will resume negotiations for settling the middle east problem when Islam and the “Palestinians” reform their hatred of Israel and accept its authority and right of existence, until then nothing will change and this is a waste of time.” Trump will get more respect than you can imagine, as well as more vitriol from the same jackasses.
Wow, sixteen years in the strategy. I suppose there's been a ton of progress and the Middle East is way better off now than before we started, right? Hmmmm....
> It serves America’s national security and global interests to disarm the unfriendly Islamic powers in the Middle East, and the arguments in favour of keeping the status quo intact are convincing.
Hogwash. It has been demonstrated beyond reasonable doubt that the policies necessary to accomplish the goal, of what the author deceptively and euphemistically refers to as “disarmament” but is really better understood as “installing puppet states”, are deeply flawed from many important perspectives - strategically, economically, morally, and have given rise to a permanent “shadow government” that makes a mockery of our own Constitution.
As Admiral Ackbar might put it... “it’s a trap!”
Yes he will, but it will be at the head of the line leading these zipper heads.
In terms of true western values, the religiously fundamentalist regimes in Saudi Arabia and some of the Gulf States are no more our “friends” than are the Mullahs in Tehran. The globalist pretense that they are our friends is a forty year mistake in western thinking.