Posted on 10/08/2019 9:58:59 AM PDT by Navy Patriot
President Trump has clearly been itching to leave Syria for months, once dubbing it nothing but "sand and death." As Trump himself was at pains to point out, he was elected on a promise to get out of "these ridiculous endless wars."
But the speed of his decision to withdraw US forces from northern Syria threatens to wreck almost every goal the US has in the Middle East just now.
Firstly, the sudden withdrawal of US forces -- designed to leave their erstwhile allies the Syrian Kurds as exposed to a Turkish advance as possible -- comes just as a regrouping by ISIS was taking shap
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If CNN really wants to engage in some basic journalism, perhaps they can start by listing what these “goals” are. The only goal I have seen over the last 30 years is the perpetual use of the U.S. military as a mercenary force for Sunni Muslims.
‘ISIS’ is just the more recent name for Zarqawi’s group al-Tawhid wal-Jihad [ a/k/a Tanzim Qaidat al-Jihad fi Bilad al-Rafidayn, a/k/a al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI)], which was created in the 1990s and whose Syrian trained branch assassinated U.S. senior administrator of U.S. Agency for International Development Laurence Foley in 2002 Jordan before the Iraq war . ISIS was not ‘created’ by Bush, nor was it created by Obama, although Obama and the antiwar crowd insisted repeatedly that it was ‘unrelated’ to al Qaeda. The group later called ‘iSIS’ was also involved in the coordinated 1999 Millennium Plots, planned attacks on everything from LAX airport to Zarqawi’s particular target a hotel in Jordan used by Americans. Indeed, one of the reasons to go to war in Iraq, besides the fact that Iraq had never complied with the terms of the Gulf War cease fire in creating a complete declaration of what it had and what it destroyed, nor had it complied with the terms that it must return all Gulf War POWs...was that Iraq harbored the 1993 WTC bombmaker, harbored Abu Nidal and his organization, funded the terrorist group in the Philippines which attacked the US consulate and a bar frequented by US military , harbored the PFLP, was carrying out assassinations of dissidents in western countries, and harboring 2002 in its capital city of Baghdad Zarqawi’s group which later took the name ISIS.
Sudden? He’s been saying for years...Told mattis almost a year ago to come up with a plan. They just never want to leave no matter what. Well guess what, it’s Trump’s decision, not the lifers.
Best response: So what? Putin and Assad are not the villains in this conflict. We are not back in the cold war anymore, with a powerful USSR and Assad’s cruel father stirring up trouble. Even Israel is dealing with Putin and managing to avoid conflict with Syria.
Stand down.
The media has this all wrong.
We closed down and left 4 observation posts, not “garrisons” as some have said.
They were in a DMZ along the Turkish border, east of the Euphrates. SAS and French troops ahve agreed to man 2 of the posts.
Turkey is not going to “invade” there and have agreed to honor the no-fly zone there.
Turkey doesn’t need another fight with the SDF/Kurds. They are very busy with Assad’s SAA W of the Euphrates in Manbij, etc.
At some point we have to let the indigenous forces and politicians settle Syria for themselves. Turkey used to have borders farther south and there are a lot of Turkic peoples there.
How about they do a few street interview and ask people to name 5 cities in Syria and the top 3 issues that concern the local population. The answers will tell you how much interest their is with keeping Anwar going in Syria
Wrong. That lineage is only the barest of threads. We switched sides in the war on terror in Libya. Syrian rebels were initially Al Qeida in Syria.
It has gone through numerous name changes to sheep dip who created and funded it. Al nusra, FSA, ISIS, etc.
All the same.... and back and forth. Assad kept them in check until we backed them up and tried to depose him.
US Government intel types are funny. They make me laugh. Still claiming they had nothing to do with it. It was a US Govt State Dept grant that paid for the Toyota fleet LOL
Because CNN cares so much.
I understand the US forces have developed the Kurds into a fine-tuned fighting force with all the weaponry they need, plenty of ammunition which the US will continue supplying and everything needed except for an air force - antiaircraft weapons, yes!
They should be able to take care of themselves considering the rest of the President’s plan for the region.
said elsewhere, but these people care about more about Turkey-Syria border than they do our own southern border
That was not stability. Hussein had attacked the Kurds with gas, Iran, Kuwait, Saudi Arabie, and Israel.
He was not adhering to the terms of the cease-fire at the end of the first Iraq War.
He was also killing his people at will, and his sons were raping and pillaging everything in sight.
He was moving troops up to foreign borders despite restrictions. He was targeting our aircraft in the area.
Calling Iraq stable under him is a massive stretch of the imagination.
I’m actually surprised the media hasn’t brought up the Nixon connection yet. Nixon got us out of Vietnam, Trump got us out of Syria.
Nashville has a very large Kurdish population. They are spreading their muslim culture. Don’t know why they don’t return to their own country and make it better.
Amen/
Maybe Trump learned this self defense method from President Reagan.
“Speed of the decision”???? Turks have been fighting Kurds centuries. We shouldn’t be in other people’s wars, especially when they have gone on this long. It means we have to sit there forever. No more Berlin Walls.
Seeing how the pkk are communists I can understand CNN’s concern for their well being
The Muslim’s Koran calls for them to what they are doing, contributing to the command to make the world Muslim. Christians and Jews are to be eliminated by any means. They can’t go home.
Everyone should get a Koran for their library and read it so as to see just what we are up against.
We are not getting out of Syria. Look at this fuel requisition for our Iraqi bases:
Click on SPE605-19-R-0212
That requisition also happens to include 19 bases in Syria.......
“...Everyone should get a Koran for their library ....”
Agree! However these Koran’s were translated for the most part by those at least somewhat sympathetic to the culture. Think T.E. Lawrence & other UK “Arabists”, so its tone has been “softened” for western sensibilities.
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