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Has President Donald Trump Outsourced Foreign Policy to the Generals?

April 28, 2017 By Richard C. Young

At The American Conservative, Pat Buchanan asks who is behind Donald Trump’s neocon conversion. Pat notes that peace and stability in the Middle East seem to always be one war away to the neocon crowd.

Who is behind the seeming conversion of Trump to hawk?

The generals, Bibi Netanyahu and the neocons, congressional hawks with Cold War mindsets, the Saudi royal family and the Gulf Arabs—they are winning the battle for the president’s mind.

And their agenda for America?

We are to recognize that our true enemy in the Mideast is not al-Qaeda or ISIS, but Shiite Iran and Hezbollah, Assad’s Syria and his patron, Putin. And until Hezbollah is eviscerated, Assad is gone, and Iran is smashed the way we did Afghanistan, Iraq, and Yemen, the flowering of Middle East democracy that we all seek cannot truly begin.

Read more here.

Pat Buchanan on Breitbart News Daily (4 /25 /2017)

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