Posted on 06/20/2017 6:41:21 AM PDT by Mariner
The United States is inching closer to involvement in the Syrian civil war after U.S. forces shot down a Syrian fighter jet on Sunday.
The incident is the fourth time in as many weeks that the United States has shot at pro-Syrian-government forces, and it carries the potential for further escalation — particularly with Russia threatening to target U.S. aircraft that fly into parts of Syria.
A statement from the U.S. military said it shot down the Syrian SU-22 in self-defense and after contacting Russian counterparts through the established deconfliction zone. The Syrian aircraft was bombing U.S.-backed forces fighting the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) south of Tabqa.
It was the first time the United States has shot down a Syrian plane, and the first time a U.S. military jet has shot down any manned aircraft since 1999.
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What possible US interest is served by working against that?
Beuller?
We have time for this, but none for the wall. I’m really starting to dislike President McCain.
Putin has his thumb up his behind, he’s not fighting ISIS, not much.
And Assad is the biggest buyer of ISIS oil and gas, he isn’t either.
Assad is just out trying to make more refugees for Syria and people support this clown.
Keeping the Iranians and Hezbollah out.
US Judge Rules Assad Helped Al-Qaeda Kill Americans
https://clarionproject.org/us-judge-rules-assad-helped-al-qaeda-kill-americans/
Russia and Syria are upset because the US and its forces are actually fighting ISIS.
Your mistake is assuming Putin wants ISIS defeated. It’s in his interest to keep Syria dysfunctional and Assad totally reliant on Russia. Putin is running the same KGB play book in Ukraine. Keep a conflict simmering and stoke it at the time of his choosing.
Because our Saudi masters said so
agreed Russia is our natural ally
Let’s fritter away anything we got left. All of it.
We are trying to eliminate ISIS and their ilk. For some reason Assad and Putin do not see it that way. I had always thought that Assad and Putin wanted to get rid of ISIS. Makes one wonder.
Man, what changed his mind since 2013? I wish he’d get us the heck out of there.
This is turning into Spain, 1936.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-27838034
http://syriancivilwarmap.com/syrian-democratic-forces/
The Kurds want ISIS out and a chunk of northern Syria and a Kurdistan and the US supports them.
And the Russians support Assad in getting ISIS out and restoring the status quo ante.
Neither the Turks or the Syrians want the Kurds expanding.
The USA still seems to be locked into the Obama/Clinton `Arab Spring’ nonsense, even after candidate Trump told us we had no business in Syria.
We don’t need another endless war in the middle east trying to establish borders or more muslim refugees when we already have enough problems here at home and trouble enforcing our own southwestern border.
Paint it any way you like, we’re back in the nation-building business. That pleases Krauthammer, Kristol, McCain and the rest of the neo-cons.
And it will give us more disgruntled muslim refugees and bleed more of the American blood and treasure candidate Trump promised to staunch.
Either finish off ISIS or get the hell out and let the Russians engage their sphere of influence before the matter deteriorates into a superpower conflict.
Or do we plan to stay after ISIS is finished and keep assisting the Kurds in their fight for their own country? That’s what it looks like now.
No one knows what it’s like
To be Assad man,
To be a bad man
Behind blue eyes
I don’t care one way or the other, although Assad seems sane compared to the others in this war. Why is the US involved at all? It’s stupid. We are risking a conflict with a nuclear power by fighting for Muslims who hate us. What happened to Trump’s promise to get the US out of futile Middle East battles?
Bring the troops home and put them on our borders. Ban Islam in US, deport Muslims, and let them fight each other to the death in their own crappy countries.
Not one bit. Billions of investments in Syria and a base too.....Russia has been tight with Syria since the 50's or earlier.
While US back-forces have been beating back ISIS, not so much with the Russian/Iranian/Syrian coaltion. The Atlantic covers this:
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/06/russia-isis-baghdadi-syria/530649/
Russia says it hit Bagdadi and has hit ISIS recently, they may be trying to change the narrative here.
Kurds and others are apparently set to win their regions, they fought ISIS.
Now, the Russians and Syrians want in on those victories.
That’s the guy I voted for.
If we’re going to continue invading and bombing Syria, let’s bomb them with great big heavy wads of the Congressional Declaration of War Against Syria.
I agree with the 2013 Donald Trump.
Where did he go?
Precisely.
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