Posted on 10/31/2020 7:34:33 AM PDT by Kaslin
A new book by Dr. Walid Phares, titled The Choice: Trump vs Obama Biden in US Foreign Policy is getting attention in Washington, D.C. and around the world. Released in late September, it stands alone as a definitive discussion and analysis of foreign policy and national security within a loud and crucial presidential election season which seems determined to focus only on domestic issues, personas, and inflammatory accusations.
In The Choice, Phares examines the shifts in foreign policy that occurred during the Obama-Biden administration between 2009 and 2016, analyzes these shifts in strategy, and highlights the domestic and geopolitical consequences. Of primary concern to the author was the Obama-Biden administration’s "partnership with the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and the region". This implicit and explicit partnership, Phares argues, created additional domestic and regional problems, including the emboldening of Jihadists. Just as important to the author was the Iran Deal. According to Phares, it was for this deal that the Iranian people were abandoned, ISIS could not be defeated, and allies such as the Gulf and Israel were sidelined.
Phares also paints a picture of paralysis surrounding the peace process. By strictly adhering to a failed paradigm for finding peace in the Middle East, the Obama-Biden administration failed to foster peace agreements between Israel and moderate Arab countries. Under Obama-Biden, relations between Washington and Jerusalem deteriorated, delaying any substantive movement until Trump’s administration. Phares cites other crises with impact on U.S. national security, including the abandonment of civil societies during the Arab Spring, rejection of vetting, the removal of instructional material from U.S. agency programs needed to understand the Jihadi threat, and the Obama administration’s encouragement of the entrance into the United States of immigrants who might not share our American value system.
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So, what did obama and biden do better than Trump?
Grift.
The sight of Obama bowing and scraping in front of world leaders disgusted me.
He really hates America.
Kerry, Hillary, Obama, Biden foreign policy teams was probably the worst foreign policy team ever.
Reset with Putin.
Iran disastrous deal.
Failed to support Arab spring freedom fighters. (This is The worst in my book)
Failed to support Iranian Freedom fighters.
Junior varsity.
Terrorism.
Benghazi.
etc.
I don’t think that the author is saying the Obama-Biden did anything better. It does t say that Trump did anything g better, either. It sounds like the guy is bemoaning the abandonment of the Middle East as the focus of interest of the Trump administration, but doesn’t want to return to the days of Obama, focusing on the creation of the Muslim Brotherhood caliphate.
I think that Trump hit just the right note on Middle East relations by doing an end around on the Palestinians. He realized that peace in the Middle East was never going to happen as long as that peace was centered around the Palestinians and the Palestinians didn’t want peace. Kamala Harris wants the focus back on the Palestinians.
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