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Related: About this forumU.S. Hard-line Stance on Iran Rattles Allies (Foreign Policy)
As Trumps national security team barrels toward a confrontation in the Persian Gulf, Europe is starting to balk.
BY LARA SELIGMAN, ROBBIE GRAMER | MAY 15, 2019, 9:06 AM
Foreign Policy
Allies of the United States are starting to balk at the Trump administrations military response to what it calls credible threats from Iran to U.S. troops in the Middle East, as fears mount that the United States is headed into another ill-advised conflict in the region.
Jim Townsend, a former senior Pentagon official, said European allies, already skeptical of Trumps foreign policy, see disturbing parallels to President George W. Bushs invasion of Iraq, especially since Trumps hawkish national security advisor, John Bolton, appears to be directing the administrations approach to Iran. Allies are getting nervous about just what Bolton might cause to happen by accident, Townsend said. They remember that following the Americans blindly can get you engaged in a forever war.
Its not popular in Europe to go die for Donald Trump, he said.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/05/15/u-s-hard-line-stance-on-iran-rattles-allies/
RKP5637
(67,104 posts)too smart and educated to get sucked in by tRump.
bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)As far as supporting a war in Iran the Europeans will quote Shrub, There's an old saying in Tennessee I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee that says, fool me once, shame on shame on you. Fool me you can't get fooled again.
delisen
(6,042 posts)"shame on me".