by Ron Paul, Ron Paul Institute:

President Trumpâs return to the Middle East this week, the first since his first-term 2017 visit, will take place amidst great turmoil. It is a region that bears little resemblance to  the Middle East of 2017 and it appears, at least from media reporting this past week, that the Trump Administration has some understanding of this reality.
Syria has been over-run and is now controlled by the same al-Qaeda that the US government supposedly spent 20 years fighting in the âwar on terror.â Violence against religious and ethnic minorities has, predictably, exploded under the âruleâ of a self-proclaimed Syrian president who until very recently was on the US âmost wantedâ terrorist list.