Quote from Al Jazeera’s video “Is Trump taking US into a new Gulf War? | Inside Story” (posted on January 4, 2020)

Hillary Mann Leverett (~14:48 – 15:55 in video): “This was not a strategic decision taken by President Trump. He is making the same mistake that is a bipartisan mistake, that goes across political lines, that both President Bush and President Obama made before him. You try to vilify a leader of another state, whether it’s Saddam Hussein in Iraq, or Muammar Gaddafi in Libya, which is what happened under Obama. You vilify this leader, you invade the country, try to destroy the country, and think you have a victory. That has been proven absolutely wrong! It is a strategic quagmire that has sucked the United States into the Middle East, drained our resources, killed our soldiers, and devastated those countries to no positive effect! We had Iraq under President Bush. We had more than 100,000 troops there and have never been able to stabilize it. It is more anti-American today than it ever was. It is more of a threat to the United States today than it ever was. The same thing with Libya that happened under President Obama. We had the exact same thing. Libya’s more of a threat today than it ever was because of the US military intervention. It’s not strategic!”

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