Legacy of 'Obama Doctrine' Trumped

What the world can expect after the change of American president raises many questions, not least for countries in the Middle East and North Africa.
The US outlook is clear this Wednesday morning, and I think it is plain and simple. The truth is finally out. The Obama Doctrine of 'non-interference in the Middle East' after creating the conditions that allow extremists to proliferate and allowing two pieces of legislation - JCPOA and JASTA - to cement the American body politic into attacking sides, illustrated Obama¹s lack of legacy and impotency in the foreign policy arena.
Killing, rather than capturing, Osama bin Laden does not make for a legacy, something few in the mainstream media took time to question.
This lack of either a reasonable or cohesive foreign policy, means the new president should urgently prioritise a 'US Doctrine' that exemplifies true American values, absent from US foreign policy hitherto.
Especially considering the doctrine of the disastrous eight year Presidency of Barack Hussein Obama - from supporting extremist rebels and promoting their ideology - the Free Syrian Army, Al Nusra and the Muslim Brotherhood to name but a few - and now we can finally recognise that that was a great mistake and an abject failure for America and the world.
The US bureaucrats had a lack of strategic vision for the next four years even with the pivotal year of 2020 - a marker used by futurists and by policymakers and stakeholders found in other international capitals approaching rapidly. Transformation plans are now all the rage, but strangely Obama's America seemed to be sitting in the back seat.
The US was stuck in a quagmire of its own making, and piecing together a coherent Middle East foreign policy may take time especially with multiple ongoing air and urban operations in the MENA region (including the Levant, Yemen, Iraq and Libya). The Trump Administration needs to lay out a comprehensive strategic plan for the next four years, with a timeline and clearly-defined key goals based on morality, fairness and justice particularly for the Palestinian peoples ....and in cooperation with Russia.
Russia used its ability to alter perceptions in the US not solely based on an information cyber-war but also by the Kremlin¹s focused desire to be seen as a moral model compared to the US, where excess is part of everyday life and nationalism and hate-crimes were on the rise.
Americanologists in Moscow have been arguing that American society is going through a tremendous cathartic moment at the federal and state level.
Despite all the attempts of the western media, Russia, rather than America, has been winning the propaganda war, especially in the Middle East.
President-elect Trump will hopefully heal all these wounds and divisions in a way a president Clinton could never do.
What comes next for Russia will be now met with a spirit of cooperation and a sense of team work from a Trump White House as thankfully the witchhunt against Russia, in particular through America¹s thinktanks and academic institutions which in recent past, has shown itself to be disgracefully biased, and increasingly aggressive against the Kremlin, will finally end; this will be the single most important change under the Trump Administration.
Had Clinton won there would have been an eventual push back by the Russians, not unthinkably resurfacing concerns about how mutual aggression between these two superpowers could have even ignited WW3.
For all these reasons, we should all be very glad we woke up this Wednesday morning to find a pragmatic Trump rather than a neurotic, power-hungry Clinton as the next US president.
The US Administration will have its hands full in the MENA region. Specific MENA states are being tugged in multiple directions by multiple actors. Despite the huge media attention on the current fight against IS, the terror group - a creature of still undetermined ownership - this all will be addressed head on by a Trump Administration.
Preparing for the break-up of states formed a hundred years ago after the fall of the Ottoman Empire, would not only challenge America but also major regional and international players. A Trump Administration will negotiate rather than make war and mankind should be greatly relieved today at this tremendous historic change.
America needs a strategic vision for 2020 in the MENA region otherwise it would have been behind the curve - when confronting the outcome of any change in boundaries or trans-regional influence shifting inevitably in favour of the Iran.
Incredibly, America was becoming a rogue terrorist nation representing the embodiment of that definition through their direct actions and those of their proxies. A Trump Administration I predict will reverse that and embrace Iran's status and importance in the region.
The widespread belief among Americans that they won the cold war against the Soviets was actually due to trillions of dollars being pumped into military spending. Somehow, this gave birth to a new breed of loony-leaning American politicians that justified their hegemony over all nations on the planet with not only the the ability but also the right to take down any country or ideology it found repugnant. This was bigotry at its finest. Trump will bring his adversaries to the table as any good businessman would. Meanwhile, Russia has reformulated itself as a new, predominantly Christian, nation with one of the most comprehensive anti-terrorist strategies outside its own territories of any other country. It's time for America and Russia to cooperate against international terrorism and thankfully a President Trump will do that.
America's past claim to promote exclusively universal democratic values by spreading their version of democracy as they did by the Clinton driven unjustified NATO bombing of Libya which they were about to repeat in Syria would have inevitably triggered potentially WW3 involving not only Russia but China.
MAD (mutually assured destruction); Armegeddon are not options for a Trump Administration but very dangerously were the options for any future Clinton White House.
The world is a safer place today because of Trumps success.
Liberal fascists better get used to it!
And finally an important consequence of the Trump victory for Great Britain will be the resurrection of the Anglo-American Special Relationship following the wise decision of the British public to Brexit from the declining EU. - Exclusive to Times of Oman