America Is Planning to Withdraw From Syria—and Create a Disaster

Foreign Policy ^ | 1/24/24 | Charles Lister,

[JonPreston]

Since Hamas’s brutal attack against Israel on Oct. 7 and the resulting Israeli military campaign in the Gaza Strip, tensions and hostilities across the Middle East have reached fever pitch. And with such a complex regional crisis playing out, it should not come as a surprise that the Biden administration is reconsidering its military priorities in the region.

It should be cause for significant concern, however, that this could involve a full withdrawal of U.S. troops from Syria. While no definitive decision has been made to leave, four sources within the Defense and State departments said the White House is no longer invested in sustaining a mission that it perceives as unnecessary. Active internal discussions are now underway to determine how and when a withdrawal may take place.

[JonPreston]

🚨BREAKING: US BASE IN EAST SYRIA HIT BY A ROCKET BARRAGE

Source: Censored Voice https://t.co/xik2qEiDtU pic.twitter.com/fyPUaKjPQw— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) January 24, 2024

[JonPreston]

Our bases in Syria and Iraq have become missile magnets. We need to leave.

[desertsolitaire]

And what has been accomplished there? And what has changed since it was apparently essential that we go there, that we may now withdraw in success with heads held high?

[JonPreston]

And what has been accomplished there?

Protecting oil?

[shanover]

We need to leave and probably never should have been there but if we leave now, it creates a vacuum. Thanks to Obama, Clinton and McCain. America seems to get into everyone’s business turning regions upside down and only to cut and run.

[Dutch Boy]

I’m thinking that what was accomplished is some people got a lot of money. The people in Syria were not on that list. Other than that, I am not sure what was accomplished.

[donozark]

Are we going to leave vast stock piles of weapons/munitions behind as Biden did in Afghanistan?

[DesertRhino]

Probably no vacuum. Assad will simply take back control of the areas we used ISIS and our rebels to wrest away.

[William of Barsoom]

A pull-out wouldnt surprse me. We’ve already developed the methodology for a sudden, unprincipled, and disasterous pull-out.

[BobL]

“Read more at foreignpolicy.com”

If this bunch wants us in Syria, then it’s a damn good reason to pull out.

I’m thinking that Biden’s bunch may be getting a bit nervous regarding a possible ‘October Surprise’ by some of the locals in that part of the world, and so they’re trying to give them less opportunity.

But, regardless, we NEVER had any business messing around in Syria and the best thing that can happen for the people, including their large Christian population, is for the Neocons to get as FAR AWAY as possible.

[desertsolitaire]

I think of those two brave Navy Seals who apparently drowned while fighting for us against Rebels/pirates/smugglers and wonder if their mission included outfitting them in such heavy ways that no emergency flotation was possible to save them? I don’t know details of course but am grateful for their service and sad at their loss.

[HYPOCRACY]

Don’t forget the two Bush bags and Cheney. The worst of them all.

[Migraine]

These foreign policy brainiacs complicate things that are actually simple.
They disregard what is fundamentally in our national interest.
They act like foreign policy is really foreign policing.

[silverleaf]

Staying is a bigger disaster
It’s never been clear under what authority we deployed troops in Syria
At oilfields

We have only a small contingent guarding oilfields ( which I guess the oil being shipped out is funding Kurds and our alphabet bois still training the “SDF” Kurds, SAA deserters, and islamist militants in vain hopes of toppling Assad)

Better withdrawn than emergency evacuated under Iranian attack

Remember when Trump tried to do this….

[who_would_fardels_bear]

What I heard is that the current admin has our forces cordoning off the farmlands of Syria in an attempt to starve the Syrians into toppling their govt. We need to get out for both practical and ethical reasons.

[JonPreston]

agree, I think things are a lot worse there than we know.

[NWFree]

Syria is crawling with Iranian revolutionary guard either kill them or get out like Trump ordered but was disobeyed

[Mariner]

Shoot the IS prisoners and withdraw from Iraq and Syria.

We have no interests there.

[MeganC]

“Our bases in Syria and Iraq have become missile magnets. We need to leave.”

No, we need to leave because we had no business being there in the first place.

[PIF]

At the behest of his dear friends in Iran, Biden is granting them a good will gesture so they will not use more than one nuclear devise on US soil.