What If Trump Is Worse than Obama?
20 January 2017
By Abdulrahman Al-Rashed
Even if the new American President Donald Trump decides to build walls with
his neighbors, expel 10 million illegal residents from the U.S. and abstain
from extending his protection over Europe and southeast Asia and his allies in
the Middle East, we will not worry much because American policy under former
President Barack Obama has been so bad to the extent where Trump is acceptable
regardless of what he does or does not do in our region.
So, if Trump actually made peace with Iran, supported Assad's regime in Syria,
didn't lift a finger to aid millions of refugees and displaced people around
the world, and remained silent over Russia's expansions, all of that had
already happened during Obama's presidency.
Terrorism has spread across the world with over ten European cities attacked
in a way no one had ever imagined. This is due to the reckless policy adopted
by the previous administration.
Chaos, encouraged by the former administration, erupted throughout seven Arab
states.
When revolution began in Libya, Obama sat and did nothing until ISIS and
terrorist forces were deployed all over the country and killed the U.S.
Ambassador.
In Egypt, Obama's policy led the army to oust President Husni Mubarak in the
name of revolution. The country was then left in chaos which prompted a
military intervention.
Obama was adamant to make a democratic change in Yemen, then abandoned his
support and left the insurgents to overtake the power by force of arms.
The former president's position in Bahrain was just as worse. He tried to back
the opposition and enforce it on the authorities, but the gulf countries put
an end to his attempts and sent its troops for support.
Obama withdrew all of U.S military troops from Iraq, which held a significant
symbolism and was an important entity for agreements with the Iraqi
government. He left the country a prey in the hands of Iran and ISIS terrorist
organization.
The situation in Syria was the worst disaster in Obama's presidential term and
the region's history in over half a decade. His hesitation and empty promises
increased destruction in the country and the displacement and killing of
Syrian people.
It turned out that Obama had sold Syria in order to negotiate with Iran to
achieve his nuclear agreement with it.
Later on, it was also revealed that the former president granted Iran more
than just a lift off sanctions and end of the containment policy. He delivered
large sums of money for Tehran and didn't say a word concerning its sabotaging
role in the region. He didn't even protect his own citizens and naval force
from the aggression of Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
During Obama's presidency, chaos was all over the region and the number of
terrorist organizations increased as well as its members and activity.
No one wanted Obama to intervene militarily, since the military intervention
in Iraq had failed during George Bush's era.
But Obama made a mistake when he banned his allies from selling weapons to the
Syrian opposition, because he didn't want to anger Iran. He was also wrong
when he underestimated the power of the terrorist organizations, until they
spread terror in the world.
After eight years of those terrible failures of Obama in power, no one will be
worried about the policy the new president shall adopt. It can't be worse than
what it had reached today.
No one expects President Trump to accomplish political and military
achievements. It will be an important accomplishment if his administration
decided to stop Obama's policy that had encouraged Iran to expand wars, and
left terrorist organizations to wander freely.
Al Rashed is the general manager of Al -Arabiya television. He is also the
former editor-in-chief of Asharq Al- Awsat, and the leading Arabic weekly
magazine, Al Majalla. He is also a senior Columnist in the daily newspapers of
Al Madina and Al Bilad. He is a US post-graduate degree in mass
communications. He has been a guest on many TV current affairs programs. He is
currently based in Dubai.
©
EsinIslam.Com
Add Comments