The devil you don't know: Trump is not all bad news for the Middle East

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The devil you don't know: Trump is not all bad news for the Middle East
#USA2016

Hayder al-Khoei
Wednesday 9 November 2016 13:52 UTC

The election of Trump today may not necessarily be the unmitigated disaster it is currently being portrayed as - at least not necessarily for the Middle East.

    There may be a sigh of relief in many quarters in the Middle East precisely because Trump’s more isolationist discourse

There may even be a sigh of relief in many quarters in the Middle East precisely because Trump’s more isolationist discourse, if it were to be put into practice, would mark a sharp departure from Clinton’s hawkish, interventionist record.

Though by no means a dove himself, Trump has publicly expressed concern over the US expanding its security umbrella across the world to secure allies that Clinton would have been more willing to protect with US blood and treasure – even if that means propping up unsavoury dictatorships at the expense of the people they rule.
Rip up the playbook?

President Obama had serious problems with the Washington foreign policy playbook, whereas with Clinton, it would have been business as usual for countries like Saudi Arabia – a key pillar of US foreign policy and security order in the region.

Read More At: http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/devil-you-don-t-know-president-trump-bad-news-middle-east-70029064

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Mega-Oil-Rich Saudi Arabia and some of those other Gulf States have given heavy donations to the political parties in the US, at least, we know this with the Clinton Foundation.

This really needs to be looked at closely, no theories on us fighting their wars but all of that should be examined.