Zakaria: ‘You Would Have to Put Military in the Ground to Get Hamas to Secede Power, Get Palestinians to Move’

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ZAKARIA: “And, you know, one has to point out, outside of all the geopolitical issues that that raises, this is a president who came in saying he wanted to focus on America first. He didn‘t want us engaging in any grand global projects. Well, I mean, this is another war in the Middle East. And the last war in the Middle East we took part in ended up stretching out much longer, was much more complicated, and cost about $2 trillion. So, you know, it seems very unlikely that this can go smoothly. You can imagine American power forcing the Egyptians to do something, forcing the Jordanians to do something. But you‘re going to have to put military on the ground to get Hamas to cede power, to get the Palestinians to move, to secure that area. And that is another — that is another military intervention in the Middle East, and I thought President Trump ran in 2016 explaining that that was precisely why he was running, he wanted to stop America‘s senseless adventures in the Middle East."