Posted on 03/29/2018 7:43:43 AM PDT by Navy Patriot
Defense Secretary James Mattis revealed Tuesday that U.S. forces nearly bombed Russians fighting on behalf of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad sometime in the past week, but a call with Moscow's own armed forces defused the situation.
Mattis said he believed Russian military officials when they said they were not giving orders to private Russian citizens battling the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) and rebel groups as part of a coalition of pro-Syrian government militias. Following an incident last month, in which the U.S.-led coalition against ISIS killed a large number of these pro-Assad fighters, including Russians, Mattis said another clash was recently avoided after Marine Corps General Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, contacted Russia's top military leader, Army General Valery Gerasimov, via a deconfliction hotline.
"There were other Russian elements like this moving across the deconfliction line, which is the river, as you know, into an area that we'd agreed with the Russians they could operate in, as they had allowed us to operate basically to the west of the river, up at Tabqa and around Raqqa. We'd agreed for them being slightly east of the river at Deir Ezzor," Mattis told reporters at the Pentagon.
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Nothing more anti-Christian than suggesting the US withdraw from the ME and allow a Shia Crescent backed by Death to America Iranian ICBM’s to develop.
“Assad is far more tolerant than the Islamic tyrants who rule Saudi Arabia”
Under Assad you could drink alcohol, dance, play music, women could wear what they wanted, marry and divorce. There were Christian populations, all types of moslems, and even a small Syrian Jewish population near Damascus.
Compare that to the Saudis.
It’s laughable to call this younger Assad a brutal dictator. We are trying to make the Syrians more like the Saudis. That’s pretty evil.
There was no problem in Syria for their Christians until Obama withdrew support for the Iraqi army. And then the neocons (such as McCain) created the Syrian rebel movement, and heavily funded it, and supplied it with Gulf state funded weaponry shipped from eastern europe and Benghazi, through Turkey.
Pretty much before this deep state project to remove Assad, Syria was pretty stable and Assad was a piker when compared to almost every other middle east leader. Probably only the Jordanian king is more sane.
PROJECTION...
You guys are a joke!
Do you realize that the pics are photoshopped?
Assad is rather puny when in comes to dictatorship.
Just ten years ago he was praised as a reformer by the very same Department of State screaming he is a dictator now.
Syria was a country where US Ambassador could go to a pub after work without a security detail and eventually run into Assad who were having his beer among regular folks without his security detail too.
Kinda like Lebanon in 1970s.
Of course Assad is not Jefferson but the only thing dictatorial about him is taking a mighty stand against Al-Qaeda and alikes.
“Were supposed to believe that lie?”
Ok don’t. You can keep believe what Obama claimed about it. Your call.
I’ve made my call if you care to further read down thread.
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