By Nancy Thorner & Al Boese -
While many pundits and Republican and Democrats legislators have gone hysterical over President Trump’s Syrian pullout, President Trump really had no choice, that is, according to Mark Langfan, a Florida-based attorney, Chairman of Americans for a Safe Israel (AFSI) who specializes in security issues, but to employ his own “Samson Option.” For Trump, faced with a no-win situation, decided to be a modern-day American Samson by knocking over everyone’s toys and theories.
According to Langfan, Trump is cleverly seeing to it that Russia needs Israel to keep Iran at bay or lose Syria to the Iranian octopus. Trump is also sending other messages to the Middle East Arab countries.
Following is Trump's American "Samson Option" as excerpted and adapted from Langfan's original report.
- President Trump isn’t “gifting” Putin a “Christmas present,” but rather is hanging a deadly Syrian Albatross on Putin’s neck. Putin is now hopelessly up a Syrian creek without a paddle. Without American forces east of the Euphrates and American dollars helping Syrian reconstruction, Putin faces an Iranian victory in Syria, and a Russian loss. In fact, Russian rapprochement with Israel is a direct result of American withdrawal. Now, Russia has only Israel to help keep Iran’s gobbling up of Syria in check. If Putin looks to Turkey to check Iran, the unacceptably high payment will be Turkish ownership of Northern Syria.
- President Trump told all the Arabs in Iraq and Saudi Arabia: Either fight Iran yourselves and pay for the fight yourselves or bow as slaves to your new Persian masters. America can’t afford either the money or the blood to fight the Arab war of liberation against the Persian colonialist Iran. The training wheels are off. America will help at the edges, but the fight must be an Arab fight.
- President Trump’s message to the Pentagon is: You can spend hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars in a year fighting and dying in foreign wars, but you can’t afford to or are legally barred from physically defending the American border, or pay for a defensive wall to slow the migrant invasions? Charity and defense begin at home. If America’s home base isn’t secure, nothing is secure. To make matters worse, the Pentagon just “missed” an “accounting error” consisting of spending 331 million dollars paying for Saudi refueling over Yemen, but nobody at DOD can find a single penny to pay for the wall?
- President Trump’s message to the world is: America can’t afford to protect you anymore. President Trump, the businessman, is looking at the total American budget, the deficit and America’s debt, and concluded: A bankrupt “world policeman,” is a defeated America that can’t defend itself or anyone else. America’s current military projection is financially unsustainable. The world had better quickly budget for its own defense.
- President Trump’s message to Turkey is: You’ve told me ISIS is defeated, America’s allies are terrorists, and you were going to attack American forces in Syria; well, goodbye and good luck. Trump didn’t believe a word Erdogan said, but Trump believed his intelligence that Turkey, an alleged NATO ally, was scheming with Russia behind America’s back on Syria. Erdogan will now have to deal with the Kurds, Russia, ISIS and Iran all by himself. Have fun. Without America propping up the Kurds, Turkey might actually realize the truth that the Kurds are Turkey’s greatest natural ally against Iran and ISIS.
- Israel better realize that relying on a Trump “Peace” deal is a huge mistake. Syria isn’t just Iran’s pathway to Lebanon, but to any "West Bank" Palestinian Arab State. Israel better quickly solidify its hold of the "West Bank" because the next American President (either sooner or later) will likely be an Israel-hating BDS [boycott] supporting Democrat who will overtly call Israel an Apartheid State. [John Kerry under Obama already called Israel an apartheid state.]
As to the American "Samson Action" attributed to Trump by Langfan, it is brilliant and illustrative of the three-dimensional chess Trump plays. Either by design or accidental, Trump drives his enemies nuts and his supporters to head scratching. On the other hand, Trump also has good instincts. His distrust of Putin, Erdogan, the Kurds, Syria and Iran sum up the Middle East.
Langfan's analysis also dove-tailed, in part, with Trump's American first policy of fighting at home for the benefit of American survival. This includes alien invasions from the South, as well as financial sensibility in fighting a war thousands of miles away. Another factor that can’t be dismissed is Trump’s own survival as president.
Holman W. Jenkins, Jr., a member of the editorial board of The Wall Street Journal, in a Wall Street Journal article on October 18th, Trump Chooses to Fight at Home, indicates that the Kurds are not the first foreign alley to be sacrificed to American domestic battles.
In the article Jerkins makes a rather blunt assessment of the latest Trump impulsive act, the pullout of the Syrian mosh pit to avoid a fight with a NATO ally, Turkey. Faced with no good options, a pullout is politically targeted on a bipartisan scale that resembles a rout. But Trump pulls the trigger and suffers the consequence. On foreign policy, he appears reckless, but shows fearlessness because he is fearless, or foolish as some might say. However, as Jenkins says, he has other fish to fry; getting re-elected so he has settled on fighting the Dems and the press on his turf over impeachment, rather than the Turks in their neighborhood.
The great Democrat and media protestations about the pullout from Syria drip in hypocrisy and reveal their sustained hatred of anything Trump and devotion to destroy his Presidency, no matter the consequence. Sadly, many Republicans, especially the neo-cons, have fallen prey to the pile on criticism of the Syrian retreat and the abandonment of the Kurds by an “impulsive” Trump. For Trump, pulling our troops out of Syria was also a promise made and a promise kept.
One final question for the Trump naysayers: Is Syria suddenly one of the Good Wars as Obama so majestically and confidently claimed for the one in Afghanistan?
