Posted on 06/28/2017 2:07:46 PM PDT by McGruff
Nikki Haley, the US Ambassador to the United Nations, has told Congress that the US should decide on its role in Syria for the time when ISIS is driven out, “because a healthy Syria is not with Assad.”
“You can’t have Assad in power with the healthy Syria,” said Nikki Haley when testifying at the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday. “A post-ISIS Syria doesn’t mean all goes back to where it should be happy and good again,” she added.
The Trump administration has so far stated that its goal in Syria is to defeat ISIS, and that it is not to remove Syrian President Bashar Assad from power.
“Eventually [Assad’s future in power] would be up for the people of Syria to decide,” the State Department said on June 22 at a briefing.
Ambassador Haley’s latest remarks at the hearing, titled “Advancing US Interests at the United Nations,” could indicate a possible change in America’s future objectives on Syria.
She had previously said that Washington’s priorities in Syria had changed with the new administration, and the US would no longer focus on the removal of President Bashar Assad.
"Our priority is no longer to sit there and focus on getting Assad out," Haley said in March.
if true - Nikki is channeling Obama and lurch
Why stop with Assad, lets remove Putin, Fra Merkel, Kim jon Fatty, Castro, and everyone else we don’t like.
Screw sovereign states, we have Nukes!
Unreal. I hope this is not true, who do they want to take over Syria???
I’m thinking she didn’t clear that statement with POTUS and the rest of the cabinet.
She’s out on a limb.
Well, their policies are being perpetuated, despite the mandate to be done with them. Now Obama supporter Con-yaya Rice is praising Trump. That is a bad sign, but hopefully is disinformation or fomenting discord.
She is a disaster. Nikki needs to go - now not later. Her threats against Russia are a pitiful reminder of her ignorance.
No reason to distrust the quotes...this isn’t CNN.
I wish we could be sure she’s out on a limb.
Neocon Nikki should compare some notes with her boss
Agreed 100%. Is she ignorant or is she a rogue sympathizer of the McCain/Romney/globalist mayham agenda?
Just because almost every other regime change the US tried in the last 50 years made things much worse is no reason to stop now.
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Bad call. We get a choice: (A) Assad, or (B) the strongest survivor after Assad is removed. If we take option B, the vast majority of strong players are far worse than Assad, both for the West and for Syria. I'd take Option A.
Trump is president now. Why are we still carrying on Obama’s losing Syria policy of ousting Assad? This is just stupid.
My o my we certainly know whats best for the Syrian people, dont we?
Who have ELECTED Assad 3 times
Nikki is the neocons’ very own Samantha Powers doll
That’s the truth. She just likes the publicity she gets when agreeing with the ultra trouble-makers.
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