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Posted on 11/24/2018 8:45:23 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
• A nightmare scenario involving a potential armed showdown between Saudi Arabia and Iran would put America and President Trump in a high-stakes dilemma.
• U.S. policy performs best when focused on a longer-term strategic purpose. In the Middle East, the approach must be on preventing any new conflicts, ending civil wars and unlocking the region's human potential while opposing extremism, writes Atlantic Council President and CEO Fred Kempe.
• The U.S. and its Western allies should leverage the post-Khashoggi crisis to achieve some good in the Middle East, Kempe writes....
(Excerpt) Read more at cnbc.com ...
“In the Middle East, the approach must be on preventing any new conflicts, ending civil wars and unlocking the region’s human potential while opposing extremism, writes Atlantic Council President and CEO Fred Kempe.”
Ummm. No.
How about we make it clear that we have had it with muzzie crap.
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How about we make it clear that we have had it with muzzie crap.
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Amen.
I say let them kill each other.
NOBODY CARES ABOUT KHASHOGGI!
He was a terrorist scumbag, calling him a journalist is like referring to Hitler as a “simple art student”.
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I think Khashoggi is gone and forgotten. This is called the period of MAGA.
Stay out of it and let them kill each other. Otherwise, it’s a proxy war between us and China/Russia, which it really kind of is, anyway. If we do end up getting involved, demonstrate a level of violence that would make a viking cringe.
The drive-bys are trying SO hard to get Trump into a muzzie mess. Muzzies kill muzzies all day long. Nothing new. Nothing we need to be involved in.
post-K LOL
"Nightmare scenario"
The Middle East is always a nightmare scenario.
"A Middle Eastern government analyst, when asked what risk keeps him awake at night, frames the scenario this way:"
If you're a insomniac, don't be a Middle East analyst, or maybe it will cure insomnia out of boredom of having nightmare scenarios constantly. This is also another unnamed source who should be smarter than to worry about idle speculation over a series of events that hasn't happened.
"Iranian-backed Houthi militia in Yemen break a fragile ceasefire..."
There isn't a ceasefire to break. Khasoggi's murder has already happened. If his death could break a ceasefire, it would have been a factor in creating the ceasefire in the first place.
"...However, he lacks the offensive and defensive wherewithal for a sustained war with Iran."
Say want you want about the Saudis, they aren't going to start a war with Iran they can't finish, and they won't start it without U.S. help. They may be desperate enough to ask Israelis for help. I'd expect them to double cross Israel right after its over, but they might ask.
The Houthi rebels are not going to break a nonexistent cease fire at the behest of Iran. The Iranian economy is on the brink, and hitting a half dozen refineries means Iran doesn't have a economy anymore. Iran can not survive a conflict right now either.
So we now have a "post-Khashoggi world" in the Middle East? We will be at the brink of war - in a few months - over a ceasefire that hasn't happened, over a journalist's murder?
These think tank types have a really high opinion of their insignificance.
Atlantic Council?
Wikipedia: Atlantic Council
In February 2009, James L. Jones, then-chairman of the Atlantic Council, stepped down in order to serve as President Obama’s new National Security Advisor and was succeeded by Senator Chuck Hagel. In addition, other Council members also left to serve the administration: Susan Rice as ambassador to the UN, Richard Holbrooke as the Special Representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan, General Eric K. Shinseki as the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, and Anne-Marie Slaughter as Director of Policy Planning at the State Department. Four years later, Hagel stepped down to serve as US Secretary of Defense. Gen. Brent Scowcroft served as interim chairman of the organization’s Board of Directors until January 2014, when former ambassador to China and governor of Utah Jon Huntsman, Jr. was appointed...
Former NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen called the Council a “pre-eminent think tank” with a “longstanding reputation”, and former U.S. Senator Richard Lugar (R-IN) noted that the Council is “held in high esteem within the Atlantic community”...
In 2017, Tom Bossert, previously a Nonresident Zurich Cyber Risk Fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Cyber Security Initiative, was appointed Homeland Security Advisor to the Trump administration...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Council
Fixed it.
More foreign policy elite nincompoopery that sees the defeat of the US and its allies as "strategic" victory.
My previous post explains what I think of Kempe's fear-mongering.
I’m sick of long, expensive Middle East wars involving our troops.
Let them fight and let Israel play the balancing game, since it’s HER backyard.
Keep US troops out of it completely.
This has “stay out” written all over it.
I’m going to use that.
Fred is so smart. He thinks he can solve the world’s problems. Poor, silly Fred. He should get a real job.
The only way I could care less about Khashoggi is if he had been a gangbanger in Chicago...
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