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The OTHER half of the deal! 2020-08-19 36 8 4 4 mideast
"suspend its plans to annex part of the West 2020-08-13 23 2 1 1 mideast
Some foreign leaders think a second Trump term is to 2020-08-03 20 2 1 2 mideast
Libya and the future of NATO 2020-07-24 6 - mideast
Republican donors aren't the only ones hedging their bets - 2020-07-20 15 - 1 mideast
Filling the vacuum of Trumpist withdrawal 2020-07-13 13 - mideast
No peace in Afghanistan 2020-07-12 32 1 mideast
How to slip into ANOTHER land war in Asia 2020-07-10 24 1 1 mideast
What should be done about Syria? What is even possible? 2020-06-24 15 - 1 mideast
While the world is preoccupied, Trump and Netanyahu plan 2020-06-22 50 12 1 3 4 1 mideast
Trump wants the boys home before the election! 2020-05-28 12 - mideast
Time is running out for Netanyahu 2020-05-27 61 10 4 2 4 1 mideast
Another tombstone in the graveyard of empires 2020-05-26 26 2 1 4 mideast
Looking to change the topic or even be a real wartime 2020-04-22 106 22 2 2 11 mideast
All for nought. Just like Vietnam. 2020-03-25 15 1 1 mideast
All unfolding according to plan. Putin's plan? 2020-03-15 18 - 1 2 mideast
Score one for Iranian intelligence. 2020-03-08 32 5 1 mideast
The Afghanistan settlement - a victory for Pakistan 2020-03-05 21 1 1 mideast
Pots simmering on the back of the stove, out of sight 2020-03-03 21 1 mideast
Is AIPAC emulating NRA by becoming strictly 2020-03-02 34 5 1 5 mideast
No withdrawal from the Middle East without withdrawal 2020-03-02 43 4 3 8 mideast
The graveyard of empires strikes back! 2020-03-02 21 1 mideast
Israel - growing up to be LA or NY? 2020-03-02 32 4 1 3 mideast
The suffering of the Syrian people will soon be over. 2020-02-28 155 89 2 10 18 mideast
Not taking sides is taking a side. 2020-02-27 23 2 1 mideast
Putin has figured out how to get Trump out of Syria 2020-02-14 67 4 1 5 mideast
Can Holy Land conflict be re-configured? 2020-01-29 9 - mideast
A plan for peace - 2020-01-28 43 9 1 5 mideast
Saying bad things can get you blown up! 2020-01-21 69 10 3 12 mideast
Schizophrenic government - 2020-01-17 17 2 1 mideast
An admirable Arab leader. 2020-01-11 24 4 2 mideast
It's just a pause until the next phase starts. 2020-01-10 11 - mideast
Iranian response is not over. 2020-01-10 17 3 1 mideast
"The real high-risk move is the one both parties 2020-01-09 14 - 1 1 mideast
Let's say something nice for a change about Lee and Paul. 2020-01-09 19 3 1 5 1 mideast
Putin and Assad confer 2020-01-08 15 - mideast
One reason why Iraq and Iran are such a mess. 2020-01-07 7 - 1 mideast
Iran has more than one general. 2020-01-07 14 - 3 3 mideast
A pointless quest in search of what is not there to 2020-01-06 22 2 mideast
The Great Uniter! 2020-01-05 13 - 1 2 1 mideast
This is what hell is like. 2020-01-02 16 1 3 mideast

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UPDATED Mon Aug 24 07:04:48 PDT 2020

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The OTHER half of the deal!

You knew there must be something more to it -

 https://www.timesofisrael.com/reported-deal-to-sell-uae-f-35-jets-edges-in-on-us-promise-of-israeli-dominance/

Evidently the Israelis thought they'd gotten something
for nothing from Trump.

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title The OTHER half of the deal!
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posted "08/19/2020 12:36:58 PM"
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"suspend its plans to annex part of the West
Bank"

"suspend" as in temporarily put on hold, to
be resumed later when Netanyahu has a stronger hand?
Why not "permanently renounce"?

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-announces-historic-peace-agreement-between-israel-and-united-arab-emirates/2020/08/13/363f3c54-dd76-11ea-8051-d5f887d73381_story.html

The UAE sheiks need all the allies they can get.  They are
in everybody's sights - and they have a REAL guest-worker
problem.

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posted "08/13/2020 09:13:06 AM"
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Some foreign leaders think a second Trump term is to
their advantage.

Not the Ayatollah!

 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/01/world/asia/iran-khamenei-us-sanctions.html

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posted "08/03/2020 10:15:00 PM"
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Libya and the future of NATO

Trump has never shown much interest in NATO.     Its other
members need to decide what to do about Turkey.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/24/opinion/Turkey-libya-russia.html

It would be pretty hard to prove that Libya is better off
without Qaddafi.        Overthrowing a dictator is only
good if something better follows.

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Republican donors aren't the only ones hedging their bets -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/the-trump-presidency-has-been-great-for-netanyahu-but-he-sees-biden-on-the-horizon/2020/07/19/67410e90-c773-11ea-b037-f9711f89ee46_story.html

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posted "07/20/2020 11:05:32 AM"
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Filling the vacuum of Trumpist withdrawal

China and Iran - rebuilding the Silk Road

 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/11/world/asia/china-iran-trade-military-deal.html

Russia and Taliban - the Taliban threw the Russians out
before, but they're willing to overlook that now

 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/13/world/asia/russia-taliban-afghanistan.html

In a way, it's an endorsement of Trumpist foreign policy -
all transactional, with no regrets for the past nor hope
for the future.

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No peace in Afghanistan

After the Taliban win, they will start fighting among
themselves over what the victory means.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/07/12/afghanistan-taliban-territory-peace-deal/

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How to slip into ANOTHER land war in Asia

Trump would certainly love a distraction.      So, perhaps,
would SOME of the Iranian leadership.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/10/world/middleeast/iran-nuclear-trump.html

Can Trump see that Israel's strategic interests in the
Middle East do not always coincide with ours?

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posted "07/10/2020 11:54:34 AM"
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What should be done about Syria?    What is even possible?

It's bad to stay, it's bad to leave, but wobbling is worst
of all.    Wobbling doesn't throw our enemies off balance,
it throws us off balance.      Like that other graveyard
of empires, Afghanistam, there is no path to Syria being
a positive for anybody in the American election.  But the
American election is a positive for the Syrian leadership,
an opportunity to act unfettered.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/06/24/most-tragic-story-john-boltons-book/

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posted "06/24/2020 04:01:03 PM"
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While the world is preoccupied, Trump and Netanyahu plan
to please their bases.

 https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/israel-annexation-west-bank-settlements-yousef-otaiba-20200616.html

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Trump wants the boys home before the election!

In the long run, it might be no worse than other options,
but broadcasting a specific withdrawal date will certainly
harden the Taliban against any further concessions to the
central government.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/26/world/asia/afghanistan-troop-withdrawal-election-day.html

"Declare victory and get out" was about the only
option left in Vietnam, and since then most Americans
have reconciled themselves to the Vietnamese government
and Vietnamese manufactures.         But will there ever
be anything worth reconciling with in Afghanistan after
we leave?

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title Trump wants the boys home before the election!
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Time is running out for Netanyahu

He has to get the annexation done while Trump can still
protect him.

 https://apnews.com/1e6ac8b86182ad69519d5ad5d4e27fab

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Another tombstone in the graveyard of empires

Another foreign invader gives up and goes home, with
nothing to show for its blood and treasure.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/26/world/asia/taliban-afghanistan-war.html

As for those Afghans who shared American ideals, their
future is particularly bleak.       Trump won't let them
into the US and the Taliban have no use for them except
target practice.

The base of Taliban support is rural men with little
formal education but excellent marksmanship and courage.
Sound familiar?

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posted "05/26/2020 12:12:31 PM"
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Looking to change the topic or even be a real wartime
president?

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-instructs-the-navy-to-shoot-down-and-destroy-iranian-gunboats-that-harass-us-ships/2020/04/22/8db924c6-8499-11ea-ae26-989cfce1c7c7_story.html

Trump's threats might have been mostly meant for domestic
consumption.  Iran responded in kind -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/top-iranian-general-warns-us-against-dangerous-behavior-in-persian-gulf-after-trump-threat/2020/04/23/659b44c0-8551-11ea-81a3-9690c9881111_story.html

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All for nought.   Just like Vietnam.

We learned once again that America is NOT willing to go
any place, pay any price.

We should be so lucky to have an Afghan outcome no worse
than Vietnam.        But it seems unlikely.     We can
withdraw but we can't escape.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/24/world/asia/afghanistan-us-aid-cut.html

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All unfolding according to plan.    Putin's plan?

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/trumps-embrace-of-mohammed-bin-salman-is-now-costing-him-dearly/2020/03/15/e9c0fcca-6474-11ea-845d-e35b0234b136_story.html

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Score one for Iranian intelligence.

It will be harder to recruit people to work with American
intelligence.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/04/us/politics/mariam-thompson-iran-spying.html

Life will be very hard for the agents she betrayed.

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The Afghanistan settlement - a victory for Pakistan
against India.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/05/world/asia/afghanistan-pakistan-peace.html

But can they keep it?     All questions in the Middle
East seem to eventually come down either to Kashmir or
Israel/Palestine.  In this case, Kashmir is the perpetual
thorn in everybody's side.

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Pots simmering on the back of the stove, out of sight
and mind.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/how-instability-in-the-middle-east-could-affect-trumps-reelection-bid/2020/03/03/9c9e7ee4-5d86-11ea-9055-5fa12981bbbf_story.html

They might boil over just before the election - perhaps
coinciding with a coronavirus-triggered recession.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/there-definitely-wont-be-a-two-state-solution-if-netanyahu-wins-reelection/2019/09/15/a28bd1a6-d566-11e9-9343-40db57cf6abd_story.html

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Is AIPAC emulating NRA by becoming strictly
Netanyahu/Republican?

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/03/02/bernie-sanders-called-aipac-platform-bigotry-group-is-proving-his-point/

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No withdrawal from the Middle East without withdrawal
from Israel.

Here's the argument for that -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-is-only-interested-in-foreign-leaders-who-can-be-bought-like-netanyahu/2020/02/28/6384c8ca-5a6b-11ea-9000-f3cffee23036_story.html

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Given his general preference for corrupt autocrats,
what's Trump's beef with Castro or Maduro?     It seems
that opposing those two polls really well with rich
Cuban-American donors at Mar-a-Lago and the rest of
Florida.       And it only takes 537 votes to flip Florida!

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_United_States_presidential_election_in_Florida

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The graveyard of empires strikes back!

 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/29/world/asia/trump-taliban.html

South Vietnam collapsed two years after the US pulled out.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/what-trumps-afghanistan-plan-has-in-common-with-nixons-paris-peace-accord/2020/03/02/fac1b1f4-57f4-11ea-ab68-101ecfec2532_story.html

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Israel - growing up to be LA or NY?

What's the greatest problem facing Israel?  It's not
terrorism - it's a dysfunctional political system.
Sound familiar?

 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/01/world/middleeast/israel-election-issues.html

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The suffering of the Syrian people will soon be over.

Will Trump take credit?  Everybody opposed to Assad will
be dead, thanks to Russian intervention.  No country wants
more Syrian refugees.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/26/world/middleeast/syria-idlib-refugees.html

But Turkey threatens to flood Europe with them.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/28/world/europe/turkey-syria-russia.html

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Not taking sides is taking a side.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/27/world/middleeast/trump-syria-russia-libya.html

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Putin has figured out how to get Trump out of Syria
for good.       And probably the rest of the middle east
as well.

The Russians are mending relations with Israel, too.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/14/world/middleeast/russia-northeast-syria.html

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Can Holy Land conflict be re-configured?

Since a final solution is not feasible, what incremental
progress is possible?

 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/29/opinion/Israel-Peace-Plan-Trump.html

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/controversial.html#israel

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A plan for peace -

peaceful re-election of Netanyahu and Trump.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/27/world/middleeast/trump-netanyahu-gantz-israel-palestinians-peace.html

No peace for Palestinians means no peace for Israel means
no peace for America.

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/controversial.html#israel

Iran will be delighted.     And Turkey, Russia, and China.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/01/27/us-withdrawal-middle-east-is-costly-mirage/

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Saying bad things can get you blown up!

 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-18/trump-says-soleimani-strike-followed-general-saying-bad-things

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Schizophrenic government -

 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/14/world/middleeast/iran-plane-crash-missile.html

yields, or reflects, schizophrenic populace -

 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/17/opinion/iran-protests.html

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An admirable Arab leader.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/10/world/middleeast/sultan-qaboos-quiet-peacemaker-who-built-oman-dies-at-79.html

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It's just a pause until the next phase starts.

 https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/trump-speech-iran-khamenei-iraq-missiles-war-20200108.html

The next phase will be conducted in Iraq, and then Syria.

 https://www.inquirer.com/columnists/trump-soleimani-iran-ukrainian-airliner-hoshyar-zebari-20200109.html

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Iranian response is not over.

We say "Iranian government" as if it were a
single monolithic thing.     But the civilian, military,
and theocratic factions all have their own agendas and
their own schedules.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/01/09/andrew-mccabe-oped-iran-soleimani/

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"The real high-risk move is the one both parties
are making together: that if we ignore the world it will
ignore us."

If we abandon Israel we can get out of the Middle East.
If we don't, we are stuck there.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/09/opinion/trump-iran-media.html

It is increasingly difficult to win a war in any
traditional sense.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/09/opinion/iran-war-us.html

Democratization of technology has seen to that.

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Let's say something nice for a change about Lee and Paul.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/01/09/gop-senator-who-erupted-over-iran-briefing-shares-awful-new-details/

And would you believe - Matt Gaetz??

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/01/10/gaetz-war-powers/

Will the Trumpist/Putinists excommunicate them?

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/01/09/new-gop-line-if-you-criticize-trump-you-support-terrorism/

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/01/09/republicans-accuse-majority-americans-hating-america/

Perhaps right after the impeachment trial?

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/01/09/millions-americans-devastated-learn-they-were-ardent-fans-soleimani-this-whole-time/

Anyway the House is soldiering on

 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/09/us/politics/trump-iran-war-powers.html

What is so hard to understand about

"The Congress shall have Power To declare War" ?

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Putin and Assad confer

Nobody got blown up at the airport, despite all the blood
on their hands.

 https://apnews.com/d7a14668d38806ae02583ce388eb09d6

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One reason why Iraq and Iran are such a mess.

Why would anybody want to get more involved in it?

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_War

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Iran has more than one general.

Quds won't miss a beat.

 https://apnews.com/d515b9c3a2b48f9d3416d73dad347456

Don't expect Soleimani's successors to be quite so visible
and easy to target.

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A pointless quest in search of what is not there to
be found

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/amid-confusion-and-contradictions-trump-white-house-stumbles-in-initial-public-response-to-soleimanis-killing/2020/01/07/61c9242e-3174-11ea-a053-dc6d944ba776_story.html

Trump doesn't have tactics, much less strategy.       He
just has feelings, instincts,  and reactions, that can
change in an instant after watching cable news.      He
never bothers looking even one move ahead.       And he's
gotten rid of all his advisers who tried to look ahead -
in favor of yes-men - "whatever you say, Boss!"
- who will all have interesting memoirs to sell in years
to come.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/06/world/middleeast/trump-iran-soleimani-strategy.html

You can't blame Trump for being Trump, but you can and
should blame Republican senators who silently enable him
to be Trump.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/theres-an-iran-strategy-in-here-somewhere/2020/01/09/906f8a46-331f-11ea-9313-6cba89b1b9fb_story.html

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The Great Uniter!

 https://www.cnn.com/2015/10/25/politics/donald-trump-democrats-republicans-bipartisanship-great-unifier/index.html

 https://kutv.com/news/nation-world/id-be-a-great-uniter-the-week-in-trump-so-far

Prophecy fulfilled in our sight!

A week ago, Iran was DIVIDED by demonstrations against
the Iranian government

 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/26/world/middleeast/iran-protests.html

Now, Iran is UNITED by demonstrations against the United
States

 https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2020/jan/03/down-with-usa-protests-sweep-iran-after-assassination-of-qassem-suleimani-video

A week ago, Iraq was DIVIDED by demonstrations against
Iranian interference

 https://www.timesofisrael.com/thousands-rally-in-iraq-against-irans-political-influence/

Now, Iraq is UNITED in opposition to further United States
military presence

 https://www.npr.org/2020/01/05/793746580/iraqi-parliament-votes-to-expel-u-s-troops-from-country-in-wake-of-soleimani-str

And he's making sure they STAY UNITED!

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-threats-against-iranian-sites-raise-questions-about-the-potential-for-war-crimes/2020/01/05/c03d8de8-2ff2-11ea-898f-eb846b7e9feb_story.html

For a guy whose admirers think plays eight-dimensional
chess, he never seems to think even one move beyond his
current move.

The only question left - can the Great Uniter UNITE the
United States Senate to convict and remove?

The assassination was discussed on Saturday and carried
out on Friday - plenty of time to consult with Congress.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/04/us/politics/trump-suleimani.html

Why didn't he?       Perhaps because Congress has been
abdicating its responsibilities for decades due to partisan
gridlock -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/01/05/why-lying-about-an-imminent-attack-matters/

Even Tucker Carlson won't defend the decision - though he
doesn't have the guts to blame Trump directly, who came
to the decision all by himself.

 https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/04/media/fox-news-iran-soleimani/index.html

And Trump may have made the decision long ago, and was
just waiting for a need to  act and an opportunity to act.
Trump does have the habit of projecting his ideas onto
others - he announced that Obama would attack Iran to
secure Obama's own re-election -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/01/04/trump-thought-war-with-iran-could-help-reelect-obama-what-about-him/

And now the dog really is wagging -

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wag_the_Dog

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This is what hell is like.

It's what the men and women deserve.     But it's
impossible not to punish their children too, either by
leaving them there or separating them from their parents.

But ISIS might be back.    If not, something else to take
its place.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/world/whats-next-isis/

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/12/23/how-isis-women-their-children-are-being-left-stranded-desert/

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/12/27/after-isis-caliphate-thousands-islamic-state-fighters-captured-syria-face-uncertain-fate/

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