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It is urgent and necessary that President-elect Biden speak clearly and forcefully that he will neither weaken, nor roll back, and will in fact strengthen and advance the Middle East peace initiatives set in motion by the Trump Administration.
Given present equivocations by Sudan, Bahrain, Jordan, and given instability in hardline Iran, the momentum to Middle East peace initiated by the Trump Administration is under threat to collapse, for Arabia may anticipate that a President Biden may intend to kow-tow to the European Union, Iran, and China.
A transfer of power is already reality in Iran from father Mullah Khameini to son. Transition politics in Iran may or may not destabilize Iran, for better or for worse. Meanwhile, Bahrain is feeling pressure from the world of fundamentalist Islamism, as indeed are any and all Muslim and EU nations on the verge of peaceful relations with the USA and Israel, due to the new potential US weakness regarding Iran that may unravel the growing tapestry of peace being woven across the world of Sunni Islam (and even Alawi Islam) with a thread binding the US and Israel (and inevitably the EU). Shall President Biden be like a cat granted privilege to play with a ball of yarn? Or, shall President Biden follow the model leadership of a George Washington?
There are only four reasons for a Biden Administration to deliberately fail to uphold and to strengthen the Middle East foreign policy initiatives of the Trump Administration:
(a) if Biden's Administration is deliberately incompetent;
(b) if Biden's foreign policy approach proves to be based on appeasement and conciliation;
(c) if Biden's foreign policy approach proves to be based on financial dealings and obligations to his supporters and donors; or,
(d) any and all of the above.
In less kind words: it may well be that President-elect Biden is in bed with the enemy and is perhaps also in the pocket of the enemy.
There are two very good reasons for a Biden Administration to speak out now to reassure the world that he will neither unravel nor fail to continue to weave the Middle East peace tapestry sewn by the Trump Administration:
(1) it is necessary for the stability and progress of the Middle East and therefore of the entire World, as the Middle East is the fulcrum of four major continents (Europe, Africa, India, and Asia); and,
(b) it is necessary for the stability and progress of the USA, as the USA is the fulcrum of the North and South American continents.
Just as the USA faces the domestic crises of pandemic, economic inequality, racial hatred, and climate change, so, too, does the entire World.
Knowing what we now know of history prior to World War Two, could we and would we in the US try Woodrow Wilson for treason, based on the destructive and portentious reality of the Versailles Treaty? And could and would Britain try Lord Chamberlain for treason, due to his appeasement of the Nazis?
What will future history say of the yet tentative Biden Administration? Will President Biden prove to be a Woodrow Wilson/Lord Chamberlain? Or, will President Biden prove to be a George Washington?
