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| Allen West: I PRAY Trump doesn't do this in the next 53 days |
| 2016-12-02 |
| [Allen West] This is why it’s a strategic imperative that the Trump national security and foreign policy teams have a strategy to implement from day one. He cannot take his eye off the ball. I’ve shared this story with y’all on previous occasions, but it warrants repeating. Back in August 2011 during a Congressional delegation visit to Israel, we had the distinct honor and pleasure to sit with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in his cabinet chamber. It was there that PM Netanyahu advised us against the complete withdrawal of all U.S. troops from Iraq. He carefully articulated that there would be a vacuum created, something would fill that space and there would be immense and detrimental consequences not just for America, but for the Middle East and the world. You see, leadership is about prescient vision, not just fulfilling empty rhetorical campaign promises and becoming wedded to an intransigent ideological perspective. PM Netanyahu represented the former, Barack Obama the latter. And Obama’s ill-conceived and insidious decision in Iraq has led to two phenomena: the creation of ISIS (actually a regeneration of al-Qaida in Iraq, just a more virulent strain) and the regional hegemonic dominance of Iran. Both of those foreign policy missteps have led to the current situation in the Middle East -- one that has immediate effects on PM Netanyahu and Israel. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #2 If Trump would do this one weird thing, his problem would be solved. |
| Posted by: KBK 2016-12-02 11:56 |
| #1 An honorable man who has served with distinction. But also a wig job. I hope he is not in Trump's loop. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2016-12-02 11:44 |