Posted on 12/27/2018 5:28:20 PM PST by detective
When Donald Trump announced that his first trip abroad as president would take him to Saudi Arabia and to Israel, it was a signal that the new administration had returned America’s traditional alliances in the Middle East to their privileged status. For the prior eight years, the Obama White House had, in contrast, prioritized relations with these countries’ regional adversary in Iran and embraced the Islamic Republic’s regional allies, Turkey and Qatar, as key interlocutors and partners. The Obama administration also supported Islamist movements in the Middle East, principally the Muslim Brotherhood, that threated to topple regimes and instigate more hostility toward the Jewish State. Even before taking office, it was clear that the Trump administration would reverse these policies.
Obviously, some were alarmed both at the American turn back to Jerusalem and Riyadh as well as the Trump administration’s recognition of the threat of political Islam, but none more than the architects of Obama foreign policy and the many talking heads, reporters, think tank wags and politicians who supported it and comprised their “echo chamber.”
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Linkee no workee
I think the world is better off without him.
Thanks. Well worth the read. The Turks have cast their lot with Iran and Qatar and the Muslim Brotherhood. The United States have reinforced their alliance with Saudi Arabia as a Middle East bulwark against Iran. Turkey is not long for the NATO alliance, IMO.
He was a very bad dude. Dems tried to drive a wedge between
Trump and the new SA leader who is helping drain his swamp and ours. Trump was too smart for the dems as usual.
Placemark.
the woman who was “helping” to write his columns - Maggie Mitchell Salem - worked for Madeleine Albright and Martin Indyk. enough said:
Qatar Foundation International: Maggie Mitchell Salem
As founding Executive Director, Maggie has championed K-12 Arabic language and Arab culture education since 2009...
Prior to joining QFI, Maggie was Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region at the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES), a leading democracy and governance NGO. While there she implemented innovative programs in Egypt, Iraq, Iran, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, and Yemen. Prior to IFES, Maggie worked as an independent communications consultant to leading U.S., European and Middle Eastern companies, nongovernmental organizations and academic groups. She also served as director of communications and external relations at the Middle East Institute.
Maggie’s career began as a foreign service officer for the U.S. State Department where she served as a special assistant to Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and as a staff assistant to Ambassador Martin S. Indyk at the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel. She spent two years at the US Consulate in Mumbai, India.
Maggie completed coursework for a master’s degree in contemporary Arab studies at Georgetown University and holds bachelor’s degrees from Johns Hopkins University in political science and psychology. Additionally, she was a Fulbright Scholar in Damascus, Syria from 1990-92.
https://www.qfi.org/about-qfi/our-team/staff/maggie-mitchell-salem/
this has some of the SSG material. read to work it out as it’s badly put together:
26 Dec: RedState: Washington Post Hints What Others Have Known: Jamal Khashoggi Was a Paid Qatari Intelligence Asset
by streiff
On Oct. 3, one day after Khashoggi’s death, while his fate remained uncertain, his researcher contacted The Post to say that he had a draft of a column that Khashoggi had begun writing before his disappearance. It was published two weeks later. [The likelihood that Khashoggi’s last column was ghostwritten to take advantage of his disappearance by making him appear to be an Arabian Thomas Jefferson appraoches certainty.]...
The Post’s pre-Christmas release of this information is almost certainly in an effort to get ahead of a story that another outlet is pursuing, and frame some rather explosive revelations in the least damaging way...
The Post’s pre-Christmas release of this information is almost certainly in an effort to get ahead of a story that another outlet is pursuing, and frame some rather explosive revelations in the least damaging way...
https://www.redstate.com/streiff/2018/12/26/washington-post-hints-others-known-jamal-khashoggi-paid-qatari-intelligence-asset/
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