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Victor Davis Hanson: How To Blow Up the Middle East War in Five Easy Steps
American Greatness ^ | 3 Oct, 2024 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 10/03/2024 4:54:39 AM PDT by MtnClimber

The Biden administration's approach to Iran destabilized the Middle East and led to the October 7 Hamas attack and subsequent regional chaos.

When Joe Biden became president, the Middle East was calm. Now it is in the midst of a multifront war.

So quiet was the inheritance from the prior Trump administration that nearly three years later, on September 29, 2023—and just eight days before the October 7 Hamas massacre of Israelis—Biden’s national security advisor Jack Sullivan could still brag that “The Middle East region is quieter today than it has been in two decades.”

So, what exactly happened to the inherited calm that led to the current nonstop chaos of the present?

In a word, theocratic Iran—the nexus of almost all current Middle East terrorism and conflict—was unleashed by Team Biden after having been neutered by the Trump administration.

The Biden-Harris administration adopted a 5-step revisionist protocol that appeased and encouraged Iran and its terrorist surrogates Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis.

The result was a near guarantee that something akin to the October 7 massacres would inevitably follow—along with a subsequent year of violence that has now engulfed the Middle East.

First, on the 2020 campaign trail, Biden damned long-time American ally Saudi Arabia as a “pariah.”

He overturned the policies of both the previous Obama and Trump administrations by siding with the Iranian-supplied terrorist Houthis in their war on Saudi Arabia.

Biden accused the kingdom of war crimes, warning it would “be held accountable” for its actions in Yemen. Biden-Harris took the murderous Houthis off the U.S. terrorist list.

Almost immediately followed continuous Houthi attacks on international shipping, Israel, and U.S. warships—rendering the Red Sea, the entryway to the Suez Canal, de facto closed to international maritime transit.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Israel
KEYWORDS: middleeast; vdh; victordavishanson

1 posted on 10/03/2024 4:54:39 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

Chaos seems to be the goal to cause WWIII.


2 posted on 10/03/2024 4:54:53 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: texas booster

VDH ping


3 posted on 10/03/2024 4:57:05 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: MtnClimber

This is how Democrats operate - They thrive in chaos that they create.


4 posted on 10/03/2024 5:21:05 AM PDT by ProudDeplorable (Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty. ~ Ronald Reagan)
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To: ProudDeplorable

And it gets dems elected! Good God!


5 posted on 10/03/2024 5:54:46 AM PDT by Harpotoo (Beintoocialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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To: MtnClimber

Marking.


6 posted on 10/03/2024 6:31:00 AM PDT by Rummyfan ( In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.)
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To: MtnClimber

How To Blow Up the Middle East War in Five Easy Steps.

Democrat X 5

It never fails


7 posted on 10/03/2024 6:55:06 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: MtnClimber
"Biden-Harris took the murderous Houthis off the U.S. terrorist list."

This is just one of many idiotic things they did.

8 posted on 10/03/2024 7:29:56 AM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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Ping! Out to the Victor Davis Hanson list

But why did Biden-Harris so foolishly ignite the Middle East?

In part, the administration naively tried to resurrect the old, discredited Obama administration notion of ‘creative tension’—of empowering a rogue Iran and its terrorists to play off Israel and the moderate Arab regimes, as a new sort of balance of power in the region.

In part, Biden-Harris was caving to increased anti-Semitism at home and the rise of powerful, pro-Palestinian groups on U.S. campuses and in critical swing Electoral College states.

In part, Biden-Harris was naïve and gullible. The two bought into the anti-Americanism and anti-Israel boilerplate of our enemies. So, they thought to make amends by seeing Iran and its terrorists as the moral equivalent of democratic, pro-American Israel.

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9 posted on 10/03/2024 8:04:08 AM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: MtnClimber
[Chaos seems to be the goal to cause WWIII.]

Well, then the World Economic Forum can have their Great Reset and everyone can eat zee bugz!!! Yay Global Citizens!!!



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10 posted on 10/03/2024 9:57:04 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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11 posted on 10/03/2024 9:57:49 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: ProudDeplorable

This is how Democrats operate - They thrive in chaos that they create.

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That’s right. They create a problem and in “solving” it, they make it worse. “Never let a crisis go to waste”.


12 posted on 10/03/2024 10:25:34 AM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: MtnClimber
In part, Biden-Harris was caving to increased anti-Semitism at home and the rise of powerful, pro-Palestinian groups on U.S. campuses...

American universities and labor unions have been in the crosshairs of Fabian socialists for over 120 years. It's going to take hard times and tough policies to pull the US out of the socialist muck.

One of Trump's first priorities ought to be the appointment of a person such as David Horowitz to lead a team of conservative academics to identify and build public support for disinfecting campuses.

13 posted on 10/03/2024 11:27:06 AM PDT by PerConPat (The politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.- Mencken)
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To: Taxman

ping


14 posted on 10/03/2024 8:13:27 PM PDT by Taxman ((SAVE AMERICA! VOTE REPUBLICAN IN 2024! SAVE AMERICA!))
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15 posted on 10/04/2024 9:15:40 PM PDT by bitt (<img src=' 'width=30%>)
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16 posted on 10/09/2024 4:55:21 AM PDT by SJackson (Lot of people put my grandpa through hell, and he’s still standing, Kai Trump)
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To: MtnClimber

On The View, Harris not only said that she wouldn’t have done anything different, she said she was involved in all major decisions.


17 posted on 10/09/2024 10:05:39 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants ("Gays for Gaza is like Chickens for KFC"- B. Netanyahu )
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To: texas booster
But why did Biden-Harris so foolishly ignite the Middle East?

I don't think they know what's going on in the Middle East. Or the Middle USA.

18 posted on 10/09/2024 1:16:15 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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