Special Report
We’re Staying Put
No matter who is president, the U.S. will have to maintain a permanent military presence in the Middle East for many years to come.
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* Absent an unlikely successful democratic uprising, the clerical leadership in Tehran must disavow the hegemonic ambitions of its power-hungry secular politicians and the Revolutionary Guards Corps. They must turn Iran toward internal economic development rather than political expansionism energized by nuclear weapon development.
* Lastly, the Saudi Royal Family’s must lose its ingrained fear of overthrow that makes it vulnerable to radical religious blackmail of Wahhabi-linked groups seeking to return the world to a political period nearly 1,400 years ago.
When these things come together, and nothing new develops, the United States can begin to remove its permanent military force from Iraq and the Middle East.
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George H. Wittman writes a weekly column on international affairs for The American Spectator online. He was the founding chairman of the National Institute for Public Policy.
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