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U.S. Military Preparing for a Full Withdrawal of Its Forces From Syria
Wall Street Journal ^ | December 19thm 2018 | By Dion Nissenbaum and Nancy A. Youssef

Posted on 12/19/2018 6:30:45 AM PST by Mariner

WASHINGTON—The U.S. military is preparing to withdraw its forces from Syria, people familiar with the matter said Wednesday, a move that marks an abrupt reversal of the American military strategy in the Middle East.

U.S. officials began informing partners in northeastern Syria of their plans to begin an immediate pullout of American forces from the region where they have been trying to wrap up the campaign against Islamic State, the people said.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Syria
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To: GOPe Means Bend Over Spell Run

Bingo.


61 posted on 12/19/2018 8:23:20 AM PST by cowboyusa (America Cowboy Up)
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To: BeauBo

He could be using the allocated Syria budget for the wall.


62 posted on 12/19/2018 8:25:54 AM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Old Teufel Hunden; Mariner; Texas Fossil

Actually, the most obvious possibility is that withdrawal plans are for after the defeat of ISIS, and have been misinterpreted/misrepresented as a change in policy.

The time may simply be approaching operationally, now that Hajin has fallen (in the last week). ISIS no longer controls any substantial towns.

It may simply be that the war against ISIS is WON - but the press has to spin that in to a negative, or it might reflect well on President Trump, or raise inappropriate pride in America, or something.


63 posted on 12/19/2018 8:36:08 AM PST by BeauBo
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To: Mariner

“The Kurds did OK under Assad.”

Yea, there is nothing like being an oppressed minority in what is truly your own land (the Kurds were there long before any Arabs or any Turks - they have been there since before Christianity as well). Assad, like the Ottomans, is just another in a long line of occupiers.


64 posted on 12/19/2018 8:36:38 AM PST by Wuli
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To: Wuli

FAR better than under Turkey or Iran.

No comparison.


65 posted on 12/19/2018 8:38:17 AM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Mariner
That we are militarily engaged anyway, anywhere around the world while allowing Mexico, Central and South America to off load their poor on US, now in the form of invading caravans - boggles the mind.

There has been lots of boggling of the mind lately

66 posted on 12/19/2018 8:39:09 AM PST by datricker (Cut Taxes Repeal ACA Deport DACA - Americans First, Build the Wall, Lock her up MAGA!)
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To: BeauBo

This is not FakeNews.

Donald J. Trump
Verified account @realDonaldTrump

We have defeated ISIS in Syria, my only reason for being there during the Trump Presidency.

9:29 AM - 19 Dec 2018


67 posted on 12/19/2018 8:41:32 AM PST by McGruff
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To: McGruff

“We have defeated ISIS in Syria”

How Sweet it is!


68 posted on 12/19/2018 8:43:27 AM PST by BeauBo
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To: Old Teufel Hunden

if you “report abuse” on your own thread, the mods will see it and pull the thread


69 posted on 12/19/2018 8:48:42 AM PST by thoughtomator (Number of arrested coup conspirators to date: 2)
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To: AppyPappy

So?


70 posted on 12/19/2018 8:53:33 AM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: Wuli; Mariner

“The Kurds did OK under Assad.”

But keep in mind that Assad’s Ba’ath Party is a racially based political movement, based on the supremacy of Arabs (which Kurds ain’t).

The Syrian Ba’ath are the last ruling Party on Earth, explicitly based on the ideological principles of the Nazi Party - Socialism based on race rather than class. The Irai Ba’ath actually carried out a genocidal campaign against Kurds (the Anfal Campaign), which they modeled on the Nazi Einsatzgruppen genocide operation on the Eastern Front.

In practice, race is becoming a more dominant “narrative” to justify (or just rhetorically persuade/incite) collectivist dictatorships in China and among the American Left. But for the Syrian Ba’ath Party, it is their explicit reason for being. It would be very very hard (not impossible) for them to reform their most fundamental pillar.


71 posted on 12/19/2018 8:57:20 AM PST by BeauBo
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To: Mariner

Good! This is what I voted for, ending NeoCon wars.

I just hope it happens. The Deep State & NeoCon psychos will try to sabotage this. Watch for another staged chem attack they’ll falsely blame the Syrian govt for.


72 posted on 12/19/2018 9:02:58 AM PST by Trumpisourlastchance
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To: central_va

Send them to the border!

Yep and a few extra in CA to make sure CA Dem/commies don’t try to pull anything. The bases there need to be beefed up.


73 posted on 12/19/2018 9:18:56 AM PST by grumpygresh (Abolish administrative law. It's regressive, medieval and unconstitutional!)
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To: Mariner
Bolton: U.S. forces will stay in Syria until Iran and its proxies depart - September 24 2018

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/bolton-us-forces-will-stay-in-syria-until-iran-and-its-proxies-depart/2018/09/24/be389eb8-c020-11e8-92f2-ac26fda68341_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.33dc36932859

Oops.

74 posted on 12/19/2018 9:51:29 AM PST by McGruff
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To: BeauBo

“the most obvious possibility is that withdrawal plans are for after the defeat of ISIS, and have been misinterpreted/misrepresented as a change in policy.”

Yep, US Press will never miss a chance to portray President Trump badly.

And ISIS is far from exterminated from Syria (Turkey) in Efrin (Afrin).

I so loath Erdogan the Islamist. And the Iranian Mullah filth. (both are empowered by Russia)


75 posted on 12/19/2018 9:53:04 AM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: McGruff

Bolton has always been a Neocon.

He hoped to box in Trump with that statement.


76 posted on 12/19/2018 9:58:02 AM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Mariner

bullsnit headline. we didn’t have any significant forces in syria to begin with.


77 posted on 12/19/2018 10:13:56 AM PST by JohnBrowdie
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To: Mariner

Lots of good thinking here on this.

Significant IMO that Syria would negotiate for southern oil fields in SDF territory (where butal fighting against ISIS remnants continues).
And the US has built up bases on Iraq border which can protect Kurds.

There’s a bigger picture we don’t see yet.


78 posted on 12/19/2018 10:14:00 AM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: BeauBo

I hope you are correct. Events will play out and we’ll know for sure but it will take time to find out.


79 posted on 12/19/2018 10:53:04 AM PST by Old Teufel Hunden
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To: JohnBrowdie

2,000 Special Operators is not insignificant.


80 posted on 12/19/2018 11:19:06 AM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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