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President Trump has upended four decades of successful U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East
Foreign Policy (via Twitter) ^ | 5/23/2020 | Foreign Policy

Posted on 05/27/2020 3:43:45 AM PDT by Skepolitic

Refers to an article by Hal Brands, Steven A. Cook, and Kenneth M. Pollack.

Trump’s break with decades of U.S. strategy in the Persian Gulf has been conducted in his typically cavalier manner. But it did not come out of nowhere. Americans have been debating their long-standing strategic commitment to the Gulf for several years now. Critics of that commitment have offered multiple arguments for why Washington ought to pull back from the region. Each is founded in realities that should refine U.S. strategy toward the Gulf, but not abandon it, as Trump appears to be doing.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; US: California; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; california; carter; iraq; nancypelosi; policy; trump; trumpmiddleeast; waronterror
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To: livius

When official US policy includes using overseas warring factions as test agents for US-made arms, every opportunity to display the awesome power to potential buyers is a win.


41 posted on 05/27/2020 5:29:14 AM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves)
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To: Skepolitic

“four decades of successful U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East”

Of “successful” foreign policy??????

They are joking, right????


42 posted on 05/27/2020 5:32:48 AM PDT by Wuli (Get)
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To: Skepolitic

40 years of terrorism down the drain...


43 posted on 05/27/2020 5:37:49 AM PDT by jughandle (Big words anger me, keep talking.)
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To: Skepolitic

Could ask our ambassador in Libya how successful our Middle East foreign policy has been. Oh wait never mind.


44 posted on 05/27/2020 6:14:16 AM PDT by artichokegrower
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To: Skepolitic

Wow. Just wow.


45 posted on 05/27/2020 6:39:24 AM PDT by meowmeow (In Loving Memory of Our Dear Viking Kitty (1987-2006))
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To: Skepolitic

Successful policy sets the region on fire?


46 posted on 05/27/2020 7:20:49 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Skepolitic

Yes, “successful” in what sense of the word?


47 posted on 05/27/2020 7:48:51 AM PDT by gogeo (It isn't just time to open America up again: It's time to be America again.)
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To: dennisw; Cachelot; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; Lent; GregB; ..
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Outside of Israel, the little Satan, the middle east is less than paradise. Unless one considers genocidal regimes from Iraq under Sadaam and Isis, Lebanon under Hizbollah, and Iran under the Mullahs paradise. Hardly our business, but hardly successful. Unless one considers our objective being the expansion of Islam and extermination of Christianity in the region, in which case our policy has been a success. The Jews in the region, though confined to one country, largely take care of themselves.

48 posted on 05/27/2020 7:54:44 AM PDT by SJackson (Suppose you were an idiot, suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself, Mark Twain)
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To: Skepolitic

4 decades would take us back to 1980. I guess maybe the Iranian Revolution and subsequent hostage taking wasn’t considered a success at least.


49 posted on 05/27/2020 8:02:04 AM PDT by xp38
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To: Skepolitic

A successful Middle East Policy is: not one more American Life lost or Dollar spent in that area. Two Iraq wars, funding ISIS via Libya, the coup in Libya, the hostage taking in Iran. Some successful policy.


50 posted on 05/27/2020 8:02:49 AM PDT by Timocrat (Ingnorantia non excusat)
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To: SJackson

Do they even type those words with a straight face. Success? Successful morass?


51 posted on 05/27/2020 8:46:50 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 ("SHUT UP!" he explained.)
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To: SJackson

I wouldn’t agree that Trump has abandoned the Gulf, either. If a man puts down the hammer and picks up a screwdriver instead, has he abandoned the pilot hole?


52 posted on 05/27/2020 8:52:40 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 ("SHUT UP!" he explained.)
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To: Skepolitic; SJackson

Oh yes, the “source” IS the key to understanding the bias and foolishness of the subject: ONLY a globalist/Arabic-centric/pro-Muslim extremist/ anti-American/Anti_Israli screed would consider changing the US MedEast policy since Carter a “failure” .


53 posted on 05/27/2020 8:59:16 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but ABCNNBCBS donates every hour, every night, every day of the year.)
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So now the Middle East won’t be the peaceful, unicorn flush utopia it has been?


54 posted on 05/27/2020 2:45:01 PM PDT by mykroar (Congratulations President Trump)
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