Former Colin Powell Chief of Staff Makes Explosive Claims About U.S. Middle East Policy
May 31, 2026
WASHINGTON — Former U.S. Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson argues that Israel’s protracted conflict in Lebanon and its declining regional standing could create a strategic opening for Turkey to expand its influence in the Middle East. Wilkerson suggests that as traditional security structures fragment, Ankara may leverage the instability to position itself as a dominant regional arbiter, balancing against both Israeli actions and Iranian-backed networks like Hezbollah.
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Tony Benn: Aren’t Arabs terrified? Aren’t Iraqis terrified? Don’t Arab and Iraqi women weep when their children die? Doesn’t bombing strengthen their determination? What fools we are to live in of a generation for which war is a computer game for our children. And just an interesting little channel four news item. Every member of Parliament tonight who votes for the government motion will be consciously and deliberately accepting the responsibility for the deaths of innocent people, if the war begins as I fear it will. And then I finish with this, on October 24th, 1945. And the former Prime Minister from Bexley notes it will remember. The United Nations Charter was passed, and the words of that charter etched into my mind and moved me, even as I think of them. We the peoples of the United Nations determined to save future generations, succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has caused untold suffering to mankind. That was the pledge of that generation to this generation, and it would be the greatest betrayal of all, if we voted to abandon the charter and take unilateral action and pretend we were doing it in the name of the international community. And I shall vote against the motion for the reasons that I’ve given the house.
