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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“four decades of successful U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East”
Of “successful” foreign policy??????
They are joking, right????
40 years of terrorism down the drain...
Could ask our ambassador in Libya how successful our Middle East foreign policy has been. Oh wait never mind.
Wow. Just wow.
Successful policy sets the region on fire?
Yes, “successful” in what sense of the word?
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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.
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.
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.
Do they even type those words with a straight face. Success? Successful morass?
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?
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” .
So now the Middle East won’t be the peaceful, unicorn flush utopia it has been?
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