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Rollback? Trump’s Iran claims not just flawed but dangerous – by Steven SimonPosted by Joshua on Wednesday, July 5th, 2017Rollback? Trump’s Iran claims not just flawed but dangerous.Steven Simon argues that Trump’s view on Iran is not only analytically flawed, but also dangerous.July 5, 2017Previously published on IISS blogBy Steven Simon, John J. McCloy ’16 Visiting Professor of History at Amherst College, and Contributing Editor to SurvivalThe Trump administration, for all its disarray, has a clear and consistent policy toward the Middle East. In other theatres, administration policy seems to lack organising principles – in Europe, for example, where the United States’ commitment to NATO has been both derided and valourised, and in Asia, where China is a threat one minute and an ally the next.Washington’s approach to the Middle East, by contrast, is distinguished by its clarity. The organising principle is that Iran is the root of all evil.There is no doubt that Iran is the root of some evil, but Mr Trump’s totalising claim and the exculpation of other regional states’ role in the current instability is not just analytically flawed but dangerous, leading ineluctably to hazardous policy objectives.Continued: http://www.joshualandis.com/blog/rollback-trumps-iran-claims-not-just-flawed-dangerous-steven-simon/
A long-term US presence, in a bleak desert surrounded by hostile tribes, for the purpose of blocking Iran’s quest for a land corridor is now being contemplated. For the administration, this is where rollback begins. But as in the Cold War, someone needs to be asking where it ends.
Landis was brought up in Saudi Arabia and Lebanon and has lived in various countries of the Middle East. He's a Moslum apologist.
