Title : Does Trump’s national security team understand the Middle East?
link : Does Trump’s national security team understand the Middle East?
Does Trump’s national security team understand the Middle East?
Rod Reuven Dovid Bryant and Jerry Gordon bring back Ken Timmerman, veteran Iran and Middle east watcher, New York best-selling author of “ISIS Begins”. Timmerman is a renowned investigative journalist with access to the Trump national security team that antedated the current Administration.In this fast-paced conversation interspersed with banter, we address the conundrum of Trump’s withdrawal from Syria and Afghanistan, truculent relations with the US intelligence community over threats from Iran, North Korea and Turkey to the Kurds in Syria and Israel.
We noted the comment of Lenny Ben-David, former high ranking diplomat with the Israeli Embassy in Washington and now with the JCPA, in a recent Jerusalem Post commentary on this issue: “[Secretary of State Mike] Pompeo and [National Security Adviser John] Bolton [who both recently met with Netanyahu] see the need for U.S. troops to be in Syria, period”. Timmerman agreed with Ben-David, pointing out Trump’s team will likely maintain the large strategic base at Al-Tanf at the apex of the Iraq, Jordan and Israel borders in Southern Syria to monitor Iran and its Iraqi proxies.
He noted that in the case of Trump’s commitment to maintain US troops in Iraq that even members of the Iran-controlled Hashd Al-Shaabi militias he met with in northern Iraq recently expressed concerns about Iraq’s future with Iran’s deepening presence in the country. In terms of a safe zone for protection of the Syrian Kurds against the threat of control by “Caliph” Erdogan, he said that proposals such as a mixed Arab Iraqi Peshmerga or a French-UK led effort with the Syrian Democratic Forces or possible Syrian Kurdistan National Guard would be acceptable alternatives. We discussed as an example the French G-Force in West Africa fighting the Islamic State in Burkina Faso and Sudan-backed jihadists in Chad, where he had visited as a Paris-based correspondent.
Timmerman noted that the G Force has more troops and supporting air units than US forces in Syria covering five countries in the Sahel region. He scoffed at comments from a Deputy Iranian Revolutionary Guard commander threatening Israel with “annihilation” following an alleged successful test on the 40th Anniversary of Islamic republic of a precision missile capable of reaching Tel Aviv.
Thus Article Does Trump’s national security team understand the Middle East?
That's an article Does Trump’s national security team understand the Middle East? This time, hopefully can give benefits to all of you. well, see you in posting other articles.
You are now reading the article Does Trump’s national security team understand the Middle East? with the link address https://drawafine.blogspot.com/2019/02/does-trumps-national-security-team.html
0 Response to "Does Trump’s national security team understand the Middle East?"
Post a Comment