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Home Front: WoT
The hard facts Team Trump should face on the Middle East
2017-01-25
Ralph Peters at the New York Post lays out the facts as he sees them. I don't agree completely but he makes an interesting argument. Of particular note is his thought that Syria is a Russian graveyard, and we should do everything in our power to make sure it stays one. He sees Syria as not worth our time, Afghanistan and Iraq as lost, and Turkey as a near-enemy.

Thought-provoking and thus recommended.
Posted by:Steve White

#4  I think the Trumpster and his team have no false illusions about the Middle East as the previous administration had.

Plus he doesn't have two foreign agents advising him and the Secretary of State on Middle Eastern matters.

I think we know that you cannot negotiate with them and they want us all dead or converted.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom   2017-01-25 19:50  

#3  I don't agree Russia is the enemy he portrays it as. China is a bigger threat IMO.

Otherwise he is right. Get out of Incirlik and set up an airbase in Iraqi Kurdistan.
Posted by: phil_b   2017-01-25 15:55  

#2  Hard to justify going to war if you aren't willing to do what it takes to win - even if the war is 'right.'
Posted by: Glenmore   2017-01-25 10:46  

#1  Brillian thinker, profound insights. Some of the reasons he never made into the Army senior grades.
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-01-25 10:01  

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