Biden’s ruinous foreign policy 2: Gaza

Conservative woman UK ^ | 15 Feb 2024 | Anonymous

[Rummyfan]

IN THE first part of this essay yesterday I explained how Biden’s unhinged foreign policy precipitated the destruction of Ukraine. Yet while the horrors of Bakhmut and the Donbas were unfolding, another of Biden’s utopian delusions was germinating in the Middle East. His government inherited the region from Trump in a subdued state: ISIS had been shattered swiftly in 2017; the Iranian regime was first suppressed by sanctions and then shocked by the 2020 assassination of the military commander Qasem Soleimani, and Israeli security commitments were bolstered by the recognition of Jerusalem as its official capital.

Hence, Jake Sullivan, Biden’s delusional National Security Adviser and a principal architect of this recent carnage, remarked eight days before the October 7 massacre that ‘the Middle East region is quieter today than it has been in two decades’. Four months later Secretary of State Anthony Blinken admitted that the region is in its most dangerously precarious position since at least 1973. In my view this precipitous collapse has its roots in the utopian naivety, and specifically anti-Israeli machinations, of the Biden foreign policy establishment.

By rehabilitating Obama’s profoundly dangerous 2015 Iran nuclear deal, which relieves the Iranian regime of billions of dollars’ worth of sanctions in return for (supposedly) dismantling aspects of its nuclear programme, Biden’s government turned the region into a tinderbox. The classicist and commentator Victor Davis Hanson observes that the deeper strategic intent has been to resurrect ‘the unhinged Obama administration plan of empowering a “Shiite crescent” – of Iran, Syria, and Hezbollah, including Hamas’. This resurgent bloc was intended to birth ‘creative tension’ in the region and counterbalance the dominance of Israel and the Gulf regimes.... To any thinking person, this is of course a deranged policy, certain to provoke conflict.

[sauropod]

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