Donald Trump’s first few weeks back in office have produced plenty of fireworks as Democrats continue to lose their minds over anything and everything he does.
But the President never expected to hear this from one of his allies.
And now Donald Trump couldn’t believe his ears when Greg Gutfeld called him this unbelievable name.
Iraq and Afghanistan 2.0?
President Donald Trump recently sent a shockwave around the world when he surprisingly announced his intention to enact a plan in which the United States somehow takes control of the Gaza Strip and rebuilds it into the “Riviera of the Middle East.”
Of course, unlike most of everything else he’s done since retaking office, Trump’s surprise announcement generated backlash from both Democrats and some of his America First allies.
After all, Trump campaigned on the idea that he would bring about a completely different foreign policy than the failed neocon agenda Democrats, RINOs, and the military and foreign policy establishments have embraced for decades, yet his plan seems to be just another version of the nation building and regime change disasters Americans have seen the U.S. government engage in throughout the Middle East, Europe, Africa, and the rest of the world for decades with nothing but failure, despair, and a massive national debt to show for it.
Nevertheless, some have defended and even celebrated Trump’s plan.
For instance, Fox News’ Greg Gutfeld praised Trump for his plan to continue using the U.S. military as the world’s police, claiming that he’s merely acting like a father who makes himself the common enemy between squabbling siblings in order to squash a feud.
“Being a new father I can say this is purely a dad move,” Gutfeld claimed. “A huge fight with your sister over the remote, your dad comes down, and he turns off the TV and just takes the remote. ‘No Gutfeld!’ That creates a common enemy: Dad.”
He proceeded to suggest that the mere threat of Trump sending the U.S. military in to seize and basically permanently occupy the Gaza strip would force neighboring Middle Eastern nations, like Egypt and Jordan, to – for the first time since 1947 – actually attempt to fix the issues in the region on their own without forcing American taxpayers and soldiers to shoulder the cost.
“So the quarrel is over, now you’ve got to deal with dad and it forces the siblings to come up with a creative alternative and suddenly all of these Middle East countries, Jordan and Egypt, those are the kids, have to go, ‘well, I don’t want dad involved,’” Gutfeld said.
“Well, maybe you have to start thinking about paying for the rebuilding or monitoring the peace or taking in some of the refugees. It causes the kids involved to go, woo, not so fast, we didn’t really want this,” Gutfeld stated.
That’s not America First
And to his credit, Gutfeld’s prediction did prove to be at least partially correct, even though there’s still an untold number of unanswered questions and major issues that haven’t been addressed.
According to Reuters, as a result of Trump’s announcement, “Egypt was looking with other Arab nations at how to rebuild and clean up Gaza after Israel’s military campaign decimated the strip in response to Palestinian [terrorist] group Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, cross-border attack on Israel.”
Similarly, during a recent visit to the White House, King of Jordan Abdullah II bin Al-Hussein announced that his country would be willing to take in up to 12,000 children from the Gaza Strip as the region is being cleaned up and rebuilt.
But of course, those efforts only scratch the surface of what would be needed to actually make real, lasting change in the region.
Even if Jordan, Egypt, and other Middle East nations help rebuild the region or take in refugees, that would still leave the tremendous burden of somehow invading, seizing control, stabilizing, and securing the region to the U.S. military, which would be another tremendous cost for taxpayers – as always.
Unless Trump can somehow convince the entire Middle East to take on the full burden of the military and monetary cost of securing and stabilizing the region while the U.S. simply oversees things from afar, this isn’t some completely new plan – it’s just a new version of the neocons’ disastrous, failed nation building and regime change agenda.
With all the problems America has right now, the last thing we need is another decades-long Middle East war – or any unnecessary war of choice for that matter.
That’s simply not America First.
