The writer of the article is a leftist propagandist. He does not care one iota about the USA.
Assad is the rightful, elected leader of Syria. If Syrians want a dictator running their country, then so be it.
Fighting Assad with rebel proxy’s (and them using Russian, Iranian allies) is not an attack on America.
It’s like saying that China attacked America when we were fighting the VietCong in South Vietnam during the 1960s.
“...Assad is the rightful, elected leader of Syria...”
That statement is industrial strength stupid.
The Hamburg cell that launched the 9/11 attacks was led by a Syrian Imam and a Syrian-born German known for connections to Syria’s intelligence agency.
Also:
To today where the late al Zarqawi, as we now know, was the guy who went on to cofound ISIS with Iraqi general al Dhouri...
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/260645/us-didnt-create-isis-assad-and-saddam-did-daniel-greenfield
>>> It’s like saying that China attacked America when we were fighting the VietCong in South Vietnam during the 1960s.
There weren’t any Chinese in Vietnam (except for the non-communists in Cho Lon.) The Vietnamese hate the Chinese. In fact China has been unsuccessfully invading Vietnam about every 30 or 40 years for the last 1300 years.
The last Sino-Vietnam war was in 1979, 4 years after we left Saigon. China sent 200,000 troops and about 200 tanks across the border. They managed to push about 20 kilometers into Vietnam before being stopped. China withdrew after about 2 months. Chinese casualties were 9000 dead, 10000 wounded, 550 military vehicles and 115 artillery pieces destroyed and captured.
It was soon after this 1979 war that Vietnam purged the ethnic Chinese from their population sending them out to sea in small boats and rafts, i.e. the Vietnam boat-people migration we all remember from 1979 into the early 80s.
Correct. Any article about the US role in Syria should state in the first paragraph that the US Fed. Gov. gave billions of weapons and training to Syrian al-Qaeda.