Posted on 03/30/2018 6:06:10 PM PDT by Navy Patriot
There are a lot of good arguments for maintaining an American presence in Syria after the fall of the Islamic State, but President Trump doesn’t seem persuaded by any of them. Perhaps he would back off his urge to cut and run if he knew that the United States and its partners control almost all of the oil. And if the United States leaves, that oil will likely fall into the hands of Iran.
It’s one feature of a larger U.S. mission in Syria that is really about containing Iranian expansionism, preventing a new refugee crisis, fighting extremism and stopping Russia from exerting influence over the region. The United States has serious national security interests in making sure that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iran don’t push America out of Syria and declare total victory.
But Trump has repeatedly said those tasks are not the United States’ responsibility. He promised to pull the approximately 2,000 U.S. troops out of Syria at a campaign rally on Thursday in Ohio.
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Sounds to me like the WaPo got it right for once.
So it’s all about the oil unless it *could* be about the oil, but only if the oil isn’t about the oil unless it should be about the oil. That about it?
they always commit the fallacy of too few alternatives. Maybe Iran will have a change of government?? It seems to be happening.
“The Psychomyopic Democrat” - Defining a Democrat.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1627860/posts
Still true!
Exactly.
BULLSH*T!
Yep, and I just can't understand why the Socialist Progs arn't deliriously happy with Iran's government, it's the one Liberal Prog Jimmah Carter gave 'em.
That's the "Enraged" part.
One thing I should add: Our president certainly knows the facts on the ground, contrary to what the WaPo is pretending to make him look stupid and ill-informed. And I don’t think he going to let the mindless pacifists have their way.
The big brouhaha is because THEY didn’t know about it or report on it if they did.
has all the sand and rubble covered Obama’s red lines. Maybe we can discover where he left them
The Kurds should trade the oil for what they can get. Their positions aren’t defensible in the long run anyway.
The Sunnis are SA’s problem.
And the whole Mideast is China’s problem now. Why should we do China’s dirty work?
Syria’s not exactly known for its oil.
And here I thought these BASTARDS thought we were evil for just contemplating keeping the oil.
You know,
NO BLOOD FOR OIL.
They produce about 1/2 of 1 percent of world production.
Now, they DO have a lot of pipelines passing through... but they aren’t carrying much in the way of Syrian oil.
There's enough to cause trouble and fund a lot of terrorism, but Syria's geographical location for oil and gas transport to Southern Europe is critical and that is what it is all about.
Didn't you know? It's impossible for a Prog to be a hypocrite.
Ridiculous
As if Iran doesnt have oil
Assad is still in power. The oil is going to Russia - that’s why they’re ‘helping’ Assad. And besides, we don’t need to be in Syria. Jordan’s much nicer and closer to the beach.
Syria doesn’t have all that much oil. On the lists of oil reserves it ranks #32. Just above Argentina.
Iran having a military presence (directly and/or thru their Hezballah murder gang or other proxies) in Syria is a grave danger to begin with, that must be removed. Letting Iran also control any more oil is a second extremely undesirable thing that we should not allow, imho. Iran is under very dangerous rule right now... and USA remains their number one target.... letting them have access to the Mediterranean through Syria is a direct line into Europe, too...another extremely undesirable outcome if we give them Syria the way we apparently abandoned much of Iraq to them
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