Brett McGurk’s Middle Eastern Policy, A Foolishness Biden will lose because of it

U.S. policy over the past two decades has been characterized by a gradual withdrawal from the Middle East and a focus on containing the Iranian regime’s military nuclear dreams. Thus, under Obama it succeeded in signing an agreement. Billions poured into Iran, and it was allowed to release its hand and arms to extend its influence and threaten the countries of the region.

Then Trump came and withdrew from the Obama-Biden agreement for several reasons, including that the agreement does not include limiting the development of ballistic missiles and does not completely control the nuclear program, and the possibility of obtaining a nuclear bomb.

Although the broad purpose of this US strategy has not changed with the change of presidents, whether Republicans or Democrats, the method and manner of its implementation, and the extent and intensity of the pressure on Iranian regime, varied from one administration to another depending on partisan affiliation for the three previous presidents.

The disparity between the bipartisan policies of the United States on Middle East conflicts seems to be clear. While the policy of the Republican Party goes to strengthen relations with U.S. traditional allies and, tightening pressure and sanctions on the Iranian regime, the Democrats are going in the opposite direction: easing sanctions and pressure on the Iranian regime, and imposing a blockade on the policies of the traditional allies, such as Saudi Arabia and Turkey, in favor of their enemies.

This approach of Democrats’ policy stands behind its scenes and is engineered by Brett McGurk, the Deputy Assistant to President Biden and the National Security Council Coordinator for the Middle East and North Africa, who has a strange mind through which he imagines that he can reproduce the politics of the region. According to his vision, this vision neglects in its calculations the interests of the traditional allies of the United States in the region, in favor of weakening these allies through the support of forces hostile to them, such as the lifting of the Houthis off the US sanctions list in spiteful act against against Saudi Arabia, and the support and arming of the PKK through its Syrian fraction called the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in spiteful act against Turkey.

This McGurk’s Middle Eastern Policy under Biden Democratic policy, contrived by McGurk and boasted by President Joe Biden, is behind recent Saudi’s OPEC’s decision to cut oil production starting on November 1.

The Saudis’ rejection of Biden’s request to increase oil production is right. Is there anyone who works against his interests, as increasing oil production works against the interests of Saudi Arabia and OPEC countries, and Biden wants from the Saudis help him in his war against the Russians who are waging war against Ukraine, forgetting that he does not care about the interests of the Saudis, and he is looking, through the engineering of Brett McGurk’s foolish policy, to please Iran, the regional enemy of the Saudis. And he wants the Saudis to accept US criticism regarding their “broken cylinder” on human rights, at a time when a US is overlooking the PKK, a part classified under US Law as a terrorist entity.

This contradiction in the Democrats’ Middle East policy is driven by Brett McGurk’s concepts, this man thinks and works outside the domain of vital interests of the United States. He purposely overlooks a terrorist party, called the Turkish Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which is why his policies are adversely reflected in the positions of the US allies, and push these allies to take positions that correspond to the interests of their nations, and adopt policy decisions that don’t allow making harmful concessions to their interests.

According to vision, Saudi Arabia’s policy of not being dragged behind the train of U.S. sanctions on Russia can be understood, as well as their position of rejecting increased oil production in support of An American policy that is openly hostile to them.

Strangely enough, Americans know that their country’s interests can be achieved by preserving their historically allied countries in the Middle East, especially after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, at the time when America is in dire need of its allies, yet Mr. McGurk offers an unrealistic and unproductive reading of his country’s interests, and does not acknowledge the mistakes, woes and consequences of his clumsy policy that produced this devastation that we are in now, from the dispersion of our allies, breaking up of our traditional allies from the circle of alliance with America. And this is tangible in the positions of important countries in the region is like Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Egypt.

It makes no sense to be an ally of the Saudis, and McGurk is asking to prevent them from being supplied with weapons, to counter Iran’s infiltration of Yemen, through a sectarian fraction calling itself the Houthis. Nor is it plausible that Biden’s policy turns a blind eye to long-range Houthi missiles originating in Iran that occasionally fall on Saudi cities. More importantly, how the Biden administration lifts sanctions on an organization it classifies as a terrorist organization (the Houthis), at a time when US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby declares. “We are in the process of reassessing the relationship between the United States and Saudi Arabia,” he said.

This policy is also followed with Turkey, a historical ally. Mr. Brett McGurk always goes to meetings with the leaders Syrian Democratic Forces, a US supported allied group, that its separation from PKK is not believed to be clear, at least to the Turkish government, through which Brett McGurk annoys, engages and drains Turks in a policy that ultimately runs counter to the interests of the Turkish state and touches on its national security. Yet President Biden rejects and resents any Turkish/Russian rapprochement and considering it hostile to his US policies, at a time when his administration openly practices a policy that does not reflect an ally, but a policy that ultimately intends to contain them.

According to these concrete facts in Saudi Arabia’s policy of reducing oil production, in cooperation with OPEC, by two million barrels per day, the Saudi goals can be understood and read, as the Saudis do not give oil for chip or for nothing. They realize that lowering its prices is not in their interest but in the interest of the Biden administration, which adopts McGurk’s subversive ideologies to the strategic alliances between United States and its traditional allies.

The Saudis want to ultimately achieve the “oil for security” argument, meaning demanding from Biden administration to reproduce its policy in consistent to those of for more than seventy years of the United States historic alliance. This requires the US administration to keep McGurk, the enemy of traditional alliances, away from any political position in the region. Will Biden do so? or is it too late, especially knowing that the midterm congressional elections are approaching their days and keeping the oil prices and inflation at its lowest serves Biden’s democratic party winning.

The democrats have failed Gulf states in their war against the Iranian penetration of Yemen and their security. And today the Unites states request that Gulf states to meet American demands which are viewed as harmful to their states. Unfortunately, this is unlikely will happen, as these countries have began, a long time ago, to look for balances in its international policies, specifically in its policies towards America, Russia and China

A recent CNN poll concluded that a higher than expected percentage of the American people are heading toward voting Republicans in the upcoming congressional elections.

An American policy on the Middle East being drawn up by Brett McGurk, with Biden’s consent, it is undoubtedly doomed to electoral defeat, and we hope that President Biden will wake up to the horror of the grave mistakes that have been made and caused by his adviser McGurk despite it seems that it is too late.