Posted on 12/02/2017 8:49:21 AM PST by tedbel
Former Minister of Defense for Israel, Moshe Yaalon, just wrote a major opinion piece United States Policy in the Middle East: The Need for a Grand Strategy which was published by Institute for National Security Studies in which he claimed:
“The first year of the Trump administration has been characterized by the lack of clear policy guidelines vis-à-vis the Middle East. The great hopes that many countries in the region hung on the change of administration and a new proactive president in the White House have slowly been eclipsed by a sense of confusion, given United States behavior that shows little consistency and no clear strategic objectives.” Yaalon, who has been out of office now for two years doesn’t know what is going on. To the contrary, the Trump administration does have a grand strategy, grander than you might image.
Many countries in the region, including Israel, Saudi Arabia and Egypt have never been more hopeful about what they understand to be his strategic objectives and his plans for achieving them.
Remember Trump has consistently refused to telegraph his foreign policy moves while at the same time has consistently repeated that he intends to push back against Iran expansionism.
Rather than focus on the negative as Israeli-American Caroline Glick did in her article America the laughing stock, let’s look at what a difference Trump has made already.
Saudi Arabia
When President Trump was campaigning, he kept saying that he wanted to defeat ISIS and their ideology. He was ridiculed for thinking he could eradicate the ideology. It didn’t take him long to make good on his word.
His administration got to work immediately with the Sunni states but principally with Mohamed ben Salman (MBS) of Saudi Arabia.
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Being careful what I pray for, lest I get it
It is absolutely amazing that the entire leftist establishment openly seeks the destruction of the US. They have badly overplayed their hand. Trump is not only overseeing a new world order but is systematically destroying global communism.
It is no wonder the left is blind to Trump’s global vision. It is fundamental loggerheads with their own. He is masterfully manipulating the left into complete destruction as they gleefully distort reality to suit their fantasies. Their merriment will be heard up to the gates of hell, after which, stuned silence.
Hope they are right, but I see Trump up to his rear in alligators in civil war 2.0 here in the states. His neglect of dealing with Israel and her problems seems more like lack of attention and letting his seconds handle it as he fights to keep America from drowning in political corruption.
Horses**t article. Pay attention to what’s going on in Saudi Arabia. Pay attention what happened to ISIS. Pay attention to WMD usage by Assad.
We intervene where needed, but we’re done with trying to take control of that place. KSA can do it, and they’re well on their way to putting that region into some kind of order. As a bonus, they’re not exactly close with Iran.
This writer seems to think we need to continue interfering over there. We’ve had so much success in the past 40+ years of screwing around in the ME that we should keep doing so hoping to magically stumble upon The Answer. No thanks.
The author writes, “The first year of the Trump administration has been characterized by the lack of clear policy guidelines vis-à-vis the Middle East.” He then spends most of the article contradicting himself.
Reread the piece. Those are not the words of the author!
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