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A Second Shoe Drops in the Middle East
On Friday, President Trump announced a peace deal between Israel and Bahrain. Here is a brief Washington Examiner article with further details. There will be a formal Declaration of Peace signed at the White House on September 15.
This makes two important peace deals in the Middle East. I’m not an expert on the history of the region, but I don’t think we’ve seen even a single deal like this since the Israel-Jordan peace agreement in 1994.
I wonder if more such deals are on the way. I don’t want to get greedy, as the UAE and Bahrain deals are major accomplishments. But I could see the showman in the President choreographing the roll-out of one successful peace deal after another in the Middle East, every three to four weeks. Saudi Arabia would be the most extraordinary deal, if rolled out in about five to six weeks, just before the election.
Published in Foreign Policy
That think the press doesn’t care about?
George W. deserved one, I thought, for PEPFAR as well as for doing something about South Sudan.
It may only be because I happened to be listening to something about the new racial quotas for the Academy Awards.
But it suddenly hit me that giving a joke Nobel Peace Prize to Barack Obama for doing absolutely nothing was a preemptive strike by the committee against potential accusations of lack of “diversity”.
So long as everybody knows what they’re signing these agreements are good things, right?
In General his Foreign policy has been great almost up their with Regan. I really had to eat my words on that I thought Trumps foreign policy was going to be horrible. I actually though Hillary would suck on Foreign policy but that is the only thing she would be better on as President over Trump. I was very wrong about that. Its his domestic policy that is lackluster.
Trump might actually be relying more on federalism than past presidents. Even if that’s not a specific reason he’s doing it. It’s more up to California to fix California, than it is the other states or the federal government. At least that’s how it’s supposed to be.