The Telegraph
Dennis Ross
President-elect Donald Trump's priorities are clearly in domestic policy. His slogan of "America First" was not meant to harken back to the Thirties and reflect a neo-isolationism, but instead to signal his focus on rebuilding the United States.
His one priority internationally is to “destroy Isil.” That is understandable. But to do this, he needs the Sunni Arab states and tribes to help defeat it, replace it on the ground, and discredit it. Without them, defeating Isil in Mosul and removing it from Raqqa, its capital in Syria, may prove to be pyrrhic victories. Unless Sunnis are part of the reconstruction and governance in the aftermath of military victories, we may recreate the very circumstances of Sunni exclusion (and oppression) in Iraq and Syria that produced Isil in the first place.
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