File photo of a US military convoy leaving Syria near the town of Tall Tamr on October 20, 2019. (Photo by AP)
US President Donald Trump acknowledges “how stupid” the country has been in its Middle East adventurism.
He made the comment at a press conference Monday as the US presence in the Middle East continued to destabilize the region.
Pres. Trump:
"We spend all this money in the Middle East. $8 trillion dollars in the Middle East...How stupid have we been in this country?"
"We've been taken to the cleaner by allies, not just with the enemies. Frankly, the allies have taken us much more so than the enemies."
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“We spent 8 trillion dollars in the Middle East, that’s with a “t”,... eight trillion. But if you need to fill a pothole, oh, we can’t do that. How stupid have we been, just stupid!”
Ever since assuming office, Trump has been raising tensions in the region, in part by adopting an anti-Iran approach.
Trump unilaterally pulled the US out of a multilateral deal with Iran and ordered the assassination of Major General Qassem Soleimani.
The US maintains a military presence in the Persian Gulf, backs dictatorships such as Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, while sparing no efforts to destabilize resource-rich nations such as Iraq.
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