THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (George D. O’Neill Jr.) - The Trillion-Dollar Illusion
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Foreign Affairs The Trillion-Dollar Illusion We spend all that money and are still unable to defend our Persian Gulf bases. The latest American-Israeli aggression against Iran has exposed the United States’ inability to defend our big bases in the Gulf Countries and smaller bases in Iraq. For decades, these countries have had to endure the ire of their populations who are unhappy with the presence of U.S. forces in their lands. Their citizens are painfully aware of the U.S. and Israeli mass destruction and murder of their Muslim brothers. This may become a source of instability as war escalates. Our leaders bribed and coerced the Persian Gulf family monarchies into accepting U.S. military bases in their countries. The regimes justified…Open