The war against terror vs today’s conflicts of the Middle East show different American approaches
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The war against terrorism led to a change of regime in Iraq and a briefly democratic Afghanistan – at least until the former president Joe Biden Disastrous withdrawal. More recently, a separate conflict between Israel and Iran has seen the United States intervene to help destroy nuclear installations – but observers should stop before making apple comparisons between the two eras.
The image of the chief of staff of the White Chamber of the time, Andrew Card, whispering in the ear of President George W. Bush during a primary school reading event that twins were affected by terrorists began three decades of American participation in the Middle East.
The Middle East and the whole world were a different place at the time, a management of the Heritage Foundation, Steve Yates, told Fox News Foundation.
Yates previously served in the Bush administration as a national security affairs advisor to the president of the time, Dick Cheney. More recently, he co-chaired the subcommittee of the 2016 RNC platform on national security.
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Presidents George Bush, on the left and Donald Trump, on the right. (Reuters)
“The world has changed enormously in 20 years,” said Yates, when he was asked to compare the two administrations.
“And I think that my perceptions of things have changed a lot, in large part, because I had a main objective, among all the other things in the world, which is happening with China.”
During the years of bush, the Chinese Communist Party was led by Hu Jintao, which Yates joked was the “definition of boredom” compared to the feist Xi Jinping.
The differences there and in the Middle East have presented challenges in the United States, said Yates.
President Donald Trump Essentially directs the first presidency “post-mondialist” as the world “Awaken (Ed) of” his “globalist moment” since the 1990s.
“None of these things were factors in the early 2000s. And I think this context is essential to try to see how things are managed now,” he said.
“Frankly, I am a supporter of President Trump and what he tried to do. I think it is very clear that he is ready to use a decisive force when he deems it necessary.”
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In the Middle East, the American intervention during the war against terrorism led the dictator Saddam Hussein to be deposited, and a terrestrial war of several decades enlivened.
Iran, at the time, was led by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad – a more eminent president. Ayatollah Ali Hosseini Khamenei has become the most important world figure in recent times, the current president Masoud Pezeshkian.
And, while the war against terrorism led to boots on the ground, Yates noted that Trump was clear that he wants allies of the Middle East and their Western neighbors to carry their “fair share” of risk and responsibility for what is happening in the region-which is marked by conflicts since the time of Jesus Christ.
“In this, Israel was very clear. They did not ask for American boots on the ground. To my knowledge, they did not ask for much other than rhetorical support,” he said, before the American vadrave bombs in the United States were B-2 on Saturday evening.
Yates foreshadowed that Trump clearly indicated that he was ready to use “decisive American force” if necessary to prevent Iranian nuclear proliferation.
“This is a definable objective … It is not a war of occupation or trying to” redo Iran in our image “as some (have) characterized Iraq, whether it is quite or unfairly.”
“So I think the president sailed with a deeper logic than most people grant it.”
The question at the moment of history is more if “the old world” will act on their common interest in supporting a non -nuclear Iran or a similar result.
He referred The “EU-3” – Germany, Great Britain and France, the three largest European economic powers – and said they were a “moderating force” in the negotiations that allowed Tehran to “mitigate the sanctions” and return to the promises made.
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But the EU -3 model has not resolved the problem, revealing that the style of diplomacy at the beginning of the 21st century – which has often attracted the United States – may no longer be effective. Israel’s decisive response to October 7 only underlined this point.
“I still have a lot of gratitude and respect for my colleagues in the Bush administration. I just see us as a world in a fundamentally different place,” he said.
“And I would give President Trump fairly high marks on how it is balanced the actions – keeping faithful to its definition of what the first America means, but also faithful to stand by allies if necessary.”
