Ruth Saba

[Ruth Saba @rcsaba]

@VividProwess newt gingrich posted this last may - to me it is helpful in explaining why djt had to slow down and take a different approach

https://t.co/JIitkfatkb

[Newt Gingrich @newtgingrich]

After spending this week reviewing the Iranian war I am now convinced President Trump is on the edge of an historic victory. The real breakthrough for me came as I reviewed President Trump’s decisions and maneuvers not from the standpoint of American unilateralism but from the standpoint of the leader of a remarkable historic coalition, the largest coalition ever put together in the modern Middle East. Everyone understands that Israel is an important ally. What is little discussed is the depth of support from the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and other countries in the region. It has to be sobering for the Iranian dictatorship to realize that it does not have a single ally willing to challenge the American naval blockade. Slowly, gradually, timidly, our European allies are lining up to help with the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz. A great deal of President Trump’s maneuvers against Iran make sense once he is seen as a coalition leader and not just as a unilateral American President. I spent a lot of the last couple weeks reviewing kinetic options including wining the battle of the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz and if necessary using the shocking and shattering level of force President Nixon and Secretary Kissinger used against Hanoi and Haiphong in Christmas 1972 (which both leaders believed convinced the North Vietnamese to agree to a truce and the freeing of American POWs). If this were a unilateral American campaign I could enthusiastically support a more aggressive kinetic campaign. However it is also clear it would shatter the coalition because our Arab allies are convinced Iran could still do enormous damage to their oil fields and infrastructure. Coalitions are inherently slower than unilateral campaigns. However coalitions ultimately bring vastly more power to the fight. I am as frustrated as everyone else by the pace of talking with the dictatorship but having reviewed the correlation of forces and the options available to the coalition on one side and the Iranian religiously motivated dictatorship on the other I am prepared to assert that President Trump’s coalition leadership (something almost none of his critics want to acknowledge) is within reach of an enormous historic victory. And if the Iranian dictatorship ultimately proves it is hopelessly committed to a suicidal position there will be plenty of time for a kinetic campaign of enormous power and effectiveness. Either way we are on the edge of an astonishing victory for our values and for a safer Middle East.

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@MonroNastya New Jersey has the most number of this type of restaurant (called a diner) in the USA. We have over 500

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@raden108s so cute!!

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@craiginite @TheKuhnerReport This.

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@yurabolognese @UMUGA_YASUSI What a cutie!

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@ikikemul He is gorgeous

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@miguelifornia @mot2grls One of the strict conditions of papal infallibility is that the Pope should be settling doctrine ( formalizing what has always been believed)

This has been invoked only twice - dogma of the immaculate conception in 1854 and the assumption of Mary in 1950.

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@alphyna From New Jersey, USA

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@Zhitnipalzhi English from New Jersey USA!

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@yukapy @hoshibakoWorks Inspiring post!

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@mame85023 I love these !