Democrats may learn Trump’s approach to the Middle East

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The writer was the National Security Adviser of the Vice President Kamala Harris

Donald Trump is fair to say that there are many fans in democratic foreign policy, and there are not many fans right. The lack of historical knowledge, lack of historical knowledge, the lack of historical knowledge, a great political position and open-hearted knowledge for dictators, criticism of open-hearted knowledge is rightly criticized and ridiculed.

However, many Democrats have an area of ​​envy in grudging land: the ability to take the pravoqs based on political price.

However, democratic leaders are afraid of political decline that breaks the new ground and enjoy Trump. The desire to ignore the Convention This week was on the full screen during his visit to the Middle East.

The first example is the trip itself. The new opening of the US presidents almost always fits its first visit to the main allies in Europe and North America (after a short parking for the body of the pope), destroyed this tradition.

Those who are indifferent to allied sensitivity or concerns related to democracy and human rights, Trump announces great defense and investment in the United States from this platform. Easily from potential criticism (Faced by President Barack Obama in 2009) for the Arab states without stopping in Israel).

Israeli policy is another example. Trump, along with Israel, including the “daylight”, including Joe Biden, including its predecessors, would not think about the fear of creating a political odestorm and the opposition of the Congress. He held direct talks with Hamas, which ensures the release of American hostage. In Israel, the Houthis’s bombing campaign has ended in Yemeni without providing his agreements to stop shooting missiles. Israel is negotiating directly on a nuclear deal in which Israel is confronted. And he talks about the bilateral agreements we want to participate in exchange for the Israeli-Saudi normalization deal with Saudi Arabia and Israel.

There is something that will be called for all these steps. However, if Biden had followed them, he would face the mass opposition – he receives himself from his party and probably.

And then there was Trump’s consent to remove sanctions on Syria and meet with the new President Ahmed al-Shara. Sharaa, once held in an American prison in Iraq and is a former jihadist with a favor of $ 10 million. Now Hay’at Tahrir Al-Sham, the organization, was a poster for Islamist terrorism, and the United States was determined as a foreign terrorist organization. From HTS in late 2024, Bashar al-Assad originated the middle of Ortaria, the United States has always maintained the previous terrorist past. However, Trump, this policy was broken by announcing the removal of US sanctions into a large fan in Riyadh.

A democratic president may be worried about sitting with a former Islamist terrorist who did not know Israel and still prove his commitment to democracy and human rights. However, Trump, Syria Erstwhile was justified to dismantle such concerns by giving the opportunity to remove Iran and Russia allies.

Perhaps the most core testing of the Trump’s approach is caused by Iran – now it occurs in another break with the latest experience. Trump, as a result, the Obama’s 2015 deal can agree to a similar nuclear contract or something that is determined, it is possible to sell it to his party and congress that he could not show any results.

Democrats will not want to splash all the same as Trump, all the same will not want to call a $ 400 million resolution plane in violation of the Constitutional violation and make a call to accept and accept Gaza. And unlike Trump, Democrats are not likely to have general control over the party or congress.

However, when the pursuit of foreign policy goals is ready to challenge conventional wisdom and political obstacles, there is something that Democrats can learn. The Americans appreciate confidence and originality, even if you do not agree with the policy in question. In foreign policy, the Democrats cannot be equally political as Trump, but probably more than they think.