Is Trump being serious?
You ask if a person who spent his time taking the spots that nobody had the balls to redevelop, with complications from all sides. You need housing for 1 million reasonable people and need to evict 1 million unreasonable people? Think trump has what nobody else has, We the most generous nation in the world, we Got it.
There is a power vacuum in Gaza, the house of Saud has no desire to get involved and spend again to see it flattened. Syria is a giant political vacuum. By all accounts Egypt should be in there with peace keepers, but they have 50 years of attempting to deal with the strip and get nothing but pain in response thanks to Yasser Arafat’s gang of thugs.
Trump is offering to fill the vacuum with Ramstine AFB 2.0 to shut down both the Hothie and the Iranians, make the Turks a minor player, create disney land middle east for arab leage meetings and build 6 golf courses with an ocean view.
Opec nations left Gaza to rot polticaly for the past 2 decades since israle said your on your own. Its now time for other powers to make a offer. In the end, having the US broker who comes in and lays down infrastructure is an out that does not take 8 years. Its a ton of bulldozers, grinding rubble into aggregate for another round of constion.
The project size if 1 million leave for browner pastures thinking Iran or Egypt is a better place to live is not really more or less than recovery from a CAT 5 with a bit of unexploded ordinance.
It is the same thing as Greenland, there is spot that needs our support, our protection, and a few F-35 squadrons. We want a base of operation, some economic role and not to be taken advantage of as just the purse.
The US navy certainly needs a port of call in the area.
Excellent proposals! I like the cut of your jib!
I support Trump, I think for the purposes of budget reform which is the existential challenge that will either make or break him, his presidency and the nation, he is the indispensable man. But he is only a man, only human and subject to all the human frailties, especially hubris.
All this excursion into fantasy does is diminish the credibility of the president while it diverts needed attention away from fixing the deficit and debt.
