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[–]BEB 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Obama withdrew under George Jr. Bush's agreement, not his own.

Trump is withdrawing troops AT THE LAST MINUTE because, believe it or not, many disillusioned veterans and anti-war types, including libertarians, voted for Trump as an anti-war candidate, then got disillusioned when he didn't deliver. This is Trump desperately playing to one of his former bases.

Recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel enrages not just the Arab street, but many devout Muslims. There are Muslims in places like Indonesia and Malaysia and India who will not be happy. The population of Pakistan, with its nuclear weapons, will not be happy.

I don't have the time to go further on this argument but I would suggest anyone interested in the Middle East read MondoWeiss and InformationClearinghouse.info to start with. I don't agree with all of it, but at least those sites casts a critical eye on all this.