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I've criticised Obama's Middle East policy before. I've called it the "be nice to Iran and they'll be nice to us" strategy. Kind of like the “cross your fingers and hope” strategy. Which of course is not a strategy, coz “hope is not a strategy”.
Despite the ongoing, clear, unequivocal, catastrophic failure of this “be nice to Iran” strategy, from it beginning to its end, from soup to nuts, it still grips the Biden-Harris administration. This is best explained by assuming that Biden-Harris is really the Third Obama Presidency. Obama being the OG of the Democratic Party. Godfather Barry.
The Dems can’t give up this “be nice to Iran” strategy in part because they can’t give up the idea of a “Two State Solution”. Which I also used to believe in, but no longer do, after finally realising the Levantine Arabs (aka “Palestinians”) don’t want it and never did want it. All they’ve wanted all along is to drive the Jews out of Arabia. They’ve been crystal clear about stating this aim, but we, the west -- China included -- have not listened. We’re still not listening. At least the Obama-Biden administration is not listening.
And then there's the Trump (45) policy: which was to ignore all the received "wisdom" of the decades past, about the need to ensure Palestinian solution first, and went for a deal with the Sunni States against the expansionist, theocratic, Shia state of Iran.
Caroline Glick has a better summary. Along the same lines, but better. More succinct.
- The Obama-Biden Middle East strategy: Make nice with your enemies to squeeze your friends. (In the belief that a stronger enemy will be nice to us in return. Kind of like the "Unicorns in our back garden" strategy...).
- The Trump Middle East strategy: Make nice with your friends, to defeat your enemies. Hence the Abraham accords. Which could have (under Trump 45), or still could (under Trump 47), expand to include Saudi Arabia, Egypt, UAE.
It is the Trump strategy that is the truly inventive and the truly practical and the truly achievable.
As Sir Richard Dearlove, ex head of Britain's intelligence services, points out in Caroline's podcast above, the Sunni states like Saudi and Jordan are quietly cheering on Israel in its war with theocratic Shia Iran; whatever the might say in public.
