Posted on 01/10/2020 7:03:41 PM PST by bitt
The Democratic charge that the Trump administration has no strategy for the Middle East is obviously false. It has elaborated a strategy that includes Russia and Turkey.
The problem the administration has faced is that Russia as an issue has been so aggravated by Democratic myth-makers, with the (presumably) inadvertent cooperation of some congressional Republicans, that it has been difficult for Mr. Trump to deal with Russia sensibly without exciting partisan hysteria and crowding the Democratic television news networks with the tiresome faces and voices of President Obama’s now-discredited intelligence chiefs (James Clapper and John Brennan), beating the old tambourines about Russia determining U.S. elections.
The basic American conceptual problem with this whole complex of issues is that the United States has legitimate interests in the Middle East and has reasonable ambitions for a civilized relationship with Russia and Turkey, but the President has also pledged to extract the country from, and stay out of, permanent wars in the region. These are valid objectives that can be reconciled, but not easily.
Nothing could have more perfectly illustrated the stark bankruptcy of George W. Bush’s Iraq War than the Iraqi parliament’s vote over the weekend to tell the United States to withdraw its forces from Iraq. It is a non-binding resolution, taken without the Kurdish and Sunni legislators present, and the next government will presumably not act on it, but it does indicate that in the Middle East, as in Europe, the states patched together after World War I have all failed.
Czechs and Slovaks have split Czechoslovakia; Yugoslavia now consists of the sovereign states of Slovenia, Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Kosovo, and Montenegro; and Syria and Iraq have cracked up also, and as in Yugoslavia, violently.
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Well, he lacks a strategy that plays into the hands of his enemies, at any rate.
The Democrats are going to lose badly by championing Mr. Obama’s green light for Iran to have nuclear weapons just six years from now, with its $150 billion signing bonus to promote terrorism and kill Americans. It was a terrible agreement and should be unmourned.
This is a case in point - the deal was not intended to advance U.S. interests, or even those of our Western allies, but to "transform" the world into a form in which the U.S. would be humbled and a better world take shape around opium-dream internationalist Democrat fantasies. The inevitable failure could be blamed on the country's previous unenlightened administrations and the power transfer to the new progressive ones made permanent. It didn't happen that way, thank God, but they haven't stopped trying.
It is no longer isolationist to suggest that we could best stop damaging whatever slim prospects for peace that still exist in the Middle East if we could stop caring. That the U.S. is now an energy exporting nation is a sea change, an accomplishment of many administrations that was sorely hindered by the environmental fantasies of the last one. It is the reason Trump could authorize the mission against Soleimani under the certainty that Iranian closure of the Straits of Hormuz would hurt themselves more than us. That couldn't have been done in '91 and GHWB, for all his own internationalist faults, knew it and responded accordingly. Those days are done.
Don't talk to the demonrats; they'll leak.
He’s so brilliant a strategist they cannot see it coming.
>> the stark bankruptcy of George W. Bush’s Iraq War
Safe meme for the average jackass.
THIS IS ONE OF THE MANY TALKING POINTS THEY USE AND IT HAS WORN OUT...THEY NEED TO FIND A NEW TALKING POINT..
Just listened to Shannon Bream trying to interview that jerk, rich boy from California, who would not allow her to speak, and he did nothing but make a fool of him self...he was so disrespectful and disgusting...typical liberal...
HEARD ENOUGH FROM ALL OF THEM...GONNA BE A LONG TEN MONTHS..
The MSM says this about everything. Trump has no strategy for _______________.
Name anything. Iran, Iraq, NATO, Syria, the economy, trade, jobs, healthcare, immigration, reelection, _________.
Everything is dumb luck. Everything good just happens. It’s not because of Trump. He’s just lucky and in the right place at the right time, kinda like Forrest Gump. But an evil Forrest Gump. A cross between Forrest Gump and Hitler.
Yet another distributed talking point for the MSM.
Since 1979, enough is enough we know your strategy and so do our dead service members
The morons are too stupid to comprehend Trump or his strategy.
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