Iran's President Hassan Rouhani, Russia's Vladimir Putin and Turkey's Tayyip Erdogan meet in Sochi, Russia November 22, 2017. (photo credit: SPUTNIK/MIKHAIL METZEL/KREMLIN VIA REUTERS) The Three Amigos
Posted on 04/02/2018 5:15:45 AM PDT by granada
Mohammed bin Salman wants the U.S. military to maintain a presence in Syria, despite President Donald Trump’s declaration that American forces will be pulled from the war-torn country in the near future.
“We believe American troops should stay for at least the mid-term, if not the long-term,” he told TIME Thursday in a wide-ranging interview.
Bin Salman said the American troop presence inside Syria is the last effort stopping Iran, Saudi Arabia’s arch-enemy, from continuing to expand influence with regional allies. U.S. forces inside the country also allow Washington to have a say in Syria’s future, he said.
Iran, through proxy militias and regional allies, will establish a overland supply route that leads from Beirut through Syria and Iraq to Tehran, Bin Salman said. The so-called “Shiite Crescent” would give Iran a greater foothold in a tumultuous region through a string of allies.
The U.S. maintains a remote base at Deir Ezzor in eastern Syria, in the middle of that corridor. It’s there that Special Operations forces coordinate with Syrian opposition fighters to wipe out the remaining ISIS fighters holed up in a series of towns along the Euphrates River and a stretch of desert straddling the Iraq-Syria border.
“If you take those troops out from east Syria, you will lose that checkpoint,” bin Salman said. “And this corridor could create a lot of things in the region.”
The Saudi leader made his remarks on Syria just hours after Trump told a cheering crowd in Richfield, Ohio that U.S. troops will soon be pulled out. “By the way, we’re knocking the hell out of ISIS,” Trump said. “We’re coming out of Syria very soon. Let the other people take care of it now, very soon. Very soon, we’re coming out.”
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The powers that be do not want it to happen.
Sorry but SA and other foreign agents have a huge say on where and how USA deploys military might.
We’ve been the Saudis’ proxy army for the last 50 years.
Send your own friggin’ military there Salami, Salami, Baloney.
Here's a better suggestion for the House of Saud: raise your own military by conscripting your own hitherto worthless citizens, and do your own fighting. It isn't the job of the US or anyone else to resolve Medieval sectarian feuds between Shias and Sunnis.
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani, Russia's Vladimir Putin and Turkey's Tayyip Erdogan meet in Sochi, Russia November 22, 2017. (photo credit: SPUTNIK/MIKHAIL METZEL/KREMLIN VIA REUTERS) The Three Amigos
“Snipers Wanted”
Although this https://peacelearner.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/edward-luttwak-give-war-a-chance1.pdf might be a good solution to the wars in the ME, it would not work as other countries would interfere so there is no easy solution.
MbS is a salesman https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/04/mohammed-bin-salman-iran-israel/557036/ that is on a mission to restore the absolute power of the Saudi monarchy. That is why he is fighting corruption by preventing others from taking bribes etc, and only allowing such business practice for his own family.
When he speaks about Wahhabism he asks; define Wahhabism? That is not easy for a random journalist, but it is true that there are different versions such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madkhalism and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salafi_jihadism just to mention two.
The monarchy started to lose absolute power during the Embargo, when the entire family tree got monstrously rich, and the monarchy had to make concessions to the religious leadership during the "Mahdi" seizure of the Great Mosque, otherwise the religious leaders wouldn't approve the use of force.
MbS is a statesman, he's already reclaimed absolute secular authority, and one reason for his large new planned city is to undermine the hold of the religious leadership.
Meanwhile Putin's a gangland leader out to pile up a huge fortune and generally **** with people, the Shiite-head is already an absolute theocrat and responsible for much of worldwide jihad, and Erdogan is the dictator of a dying republic, removing all but the trappings of the multiparty state, and like the other two piling up money in the process.
The Iranian mullahcracy should have been snuffed during the GWB administration, which also should have eschewed attempts to stabilized Iraq -- removing Iran's mullahs would have been a more effective route of that, but ultimately, who cares, provided we wipe out enemies of the US.
Agree.
Hi.
“People like you are a big reason why Jeb Bush was less popular than a child molester among GOP primary voters.”
LOL. That was good.
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