{"id":12282,"date":"2020-04-02T11:00:27","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T18:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12282"},"modified":"2020-04-01T21:59:45","modified_gmt":"2020-04-02T04:59:45","slug":"strategika-issue-63-should-the-united-states-leave-the-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/strategika-issue-63-should-the-united-states-leave-the-middle-east\/","title":{"rendered":"Strategika Issue #63: Should the United States Leave the Middle East?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Learning From Failure: Formulating A New U.S. Middle East Foreign Policy<br><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Please read a new essay by my colleague, Edward N. Luttwak\u00a0in Strategika.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A commentator recently complained that President Trump does not have a \u201cSyria strategy\u201d and therefore awful Assad is winning. Countless Op-Ed writers before him likewise commented that President X \u201cdid not have a [insert the name of any country from Morocco to India] strategy,\u201d and therefore awful Z was winning.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoover.org\/research\/learning-failure-formulating-new-us-middle-east-foreign-policy\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Leaving The Middle East?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Please read a new essay by my colleague, Peter R. Mansoor\u00a0in Strategika.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the exception of President George H. W. Bush, every U.S. president since the end of the Cold War has promised American retrenchment from the Middle East. They all have failed to make good on their promises.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoover.org\/research\/leaving-middle-east\">Read the full article here.<\/a><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Leaving the Middle East: The Fallacy of a False Dichotomy<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Please read a new essay by my colleague, Admiral James O. Ellis Jr.\u00a0in Strategika.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In classical logic, the false dichotomy, or false dilemma, is defined as an argument where only two choices are presented yet more exist, or a spectrum of possible choices exists between two extremes. False dilemmas are usually characterized by \u201ceither this or that\u201d language but can also be characterized by the omission of choices. This insidious tactic has the appearance of forming a logical argument, but under closer scrutiny it becomes evident that there are more possibilities than the either\/or choice that is presented.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoover.org\/research\/leaving-middle-east-fallacy-false-dichotomy\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learning From Failure: Formulating A New U.S. Middle East Foreign Policy Please read a new essay by my colleague, Edward N. Luttwak\u00a0in Strategika. A commentator recently complained that President Trump does not have a \u201cSyria strategy\u201d and therefore awful Assad is winning. Countless Op-Ed writers before him likewise commented that President X \u201cdid not have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-3c6","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13844,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/strategika-74-the-prospects-of-a-new-iran-deal\/","url_meta":{"origin":12282,"position":0},"title":"Strategika #74: The Prospects of a New Iran Deal","author":"Victor Davis Hanson","date":"August 4, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Iran's Nuclear Program Please read a new essay by my colleague, Peter R. 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