American Thinker-
Nikolas Gvosdev is a Russian-American international relations scholar who is concerned that President Trump is repudiating the Carter doctrine on the Middle East.
What is this doctrine that Gvosdev is referring to? No, it’s not what you might first suspect, appeasement. Rather, it’s that the U.S. considers instability in the Persian Gulf region an assault on vital American interests which will be repelled by any means necessary, including military force. This doctrine was not a Senate-ratified treaty or anything so formal. Rather, it was defined in a State of the Union address that Carter gave in 1980 in the midst of the second oil shock. The Carter doctrine was essentially a promise to the world that the U.S. would ensure the free flow of oil through the Persian Gulf.
According to Gvosdev, to the Carter Doctrine a ‘corollary‘ was added in 1981 by President Reagan. It held that the internal stability of the governments in the region, as well as their safety from external attack, was a prime national interest of the United States.
In today’s world, it is foolhardy to try and maintain such a commitment.
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Obama’s treason aside: we sure tolerated a lot of crap from the GOP for the past 40 years. We finally elect AND STEADFASTLY BACK the right guy, and we are energy independent in 2 years.
Imagine if Jeb! was president?
We can never go back.
Step up EUROPE.
It is entirely appropriate that this doctrine be eliminated, the United States is now the worlds largest oil producer. The Carter mandate, like it’s originator, is now useless.
Expand it to include Taiwan. Official diplomatic recognition now. 1979 to the ashes of history.
“Imagine if Jeb! was president?”
Iran would’ve already gotten another cash shipment to prove America is “nice”.
Here, have some Guac, Colomba made it special and it’s halal!
So Jimmah didn’t get Nancys’ and Schumers’ approval first?
The energy stream flowing thru the straits of Hormuz needs to be protected by the countries dependent on this energy stream, and not just the United States.
The US is not the official world cop
I always thought that the Carter Doctrine was that our country would tolerate almost anything to avoid conflict in the Middle East, including the seizure of our Embassy and the mistreatment of our personnel until a real man was finally elected to straighten out his mess. The Carter Doctrine was followed by the Omuhammad Doctrine, which tolerated the seizure of a US Naval vessel and the humiliation of its crew, the payment of billions of dollars to allow the Iranians to continue building atomic weapons, and killing Americans in Afghanistan and Iraq until another real man was finally elected to straighten out his mess.
I thought the Carter Doctrine was to turn off the heat and wear a sweater!
A weak anti-smite who’s only accomplishment was not being as bad as the magic negro…
Carter thought instability in the region was caused by Israel. His doctrine was predicated on anti-Semitism.
Carter was the CAUSE of instability in the region. If it weren’t for Carter there would be no Iran problem today.
There’s also the Clinton Doctrine: Whip out your pecker and tell the young interns to kiss it.
YThe doctrine is outdated.
Carter has lived long enough to see what his incompetence and naïveté has wrought, but I bet he is as incapable at introspection as every other liberal.
Having been there as an adult when that stupid ass
Carter came up with his ME BS I know the name of his
“policy”.
To the American people it was called “Bend Over”.
Then Ronald Regan straightened that out real fast.
It’s good. Carter is now figuratively dead and buried.
All that’s left to do for Carter is to dig a hole, toss him in, and cover him up.
Wasn’t the Carter Doctrine just put on a sweater?
So, how is PJT’s housecleaning doing with the Department of State? I thought most of the whiners threatening to move out of the US worked there. Any of them worth keeping?
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NO.
So the Babylonians, Hittites, Assyrians, Persians, Medes, Elamites, Canaanites, and whatever other scumbags I forgot to mention, are to have a stable region are they?
Abraham from his grave says, “Good luck with that!”