It would be one thing if our involvements were all resounding successes. But it’s been just one expensive failure after another.
Posted on 05/20/2025 10:40:30 AM PDT by DFG
Secretary of State Marco Rubio told lawmakers Tuesday that Syria may be weeks away from plunging into another civil war or collapsing altogether.
Rubio, who met with top Syrian officials last week during President Trump’s Middle East trip, said fears for the fledgling Damascus government were the main reason Trump abruptly opted to implement a 180-day waiver on sanctions last week following his meeting in Saudi Arabia with Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa.
“It is our assessment that, frankly, the transitional authority, given the challenges they’re facing, are maybe weeks — not many months — away from potential collapse and a full-scale civil war of epic proportions, basically the country splitting up,” Rubio told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
“The lifting of the sanctions, its most immediate impact will be to allow neighboring countries to begin to assist the transitional authority to build governance mechanisms that allow them to actually establish government, unify the armed forces under one banner,” he added.
However, Rubio also cautioned that sanctions relief alone “won’t be enough” to stabilize Syria and suggested “there’s going to have to be something done congressionally or more comprehensively” to revive the beleaguered nation following more than 14 years of civil war.
Al-Sharaa led the Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham’s toppling of the Assad regime last year — ending a dynasty that had ruled the former French colony since 1971.
Last week, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman helped organize a meeting between al-Sharaa and Trump, during which the US president implored the Syrian leader to sign on to the Abraham Accords recognizing Israel.
Al-Sharaa is a career militant who fought US troops as a member of Al Qaeda in Iraq in the early 2000s before founding the terrorist group’s Nusra Front affiliate in Syria in 2012.
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Give them the Ukraine money.
Except for diplomatic discussions, please let’s not get involved.
No peace-keeping troops.
No promises of financial aid.
No trying to fix everything, everywhere.
An independent Kurdistan might be in our best interest. This could be a start.
So after a brief intermission we are on to Act II...
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They just had a civil war. Why do they want another already?
How much blood and treasure has the United States wasted to be involved in foreign entanglement of former European colonies?
The wrong side won.
Whichever that side was.
It is hard to keep track.
It would be one thing if our involvements were all resounding successes. But it’s been just one expensive failure after another.
Send birth control.
Oh, wait, the “MAGA movement is against nation building” and particularly when it comes to the Middle East” but NOW it is worth doing that, or assisting that in Syria???
Frankly if we had to do anything in the area I’d rather help the Kurds obtain permanent control over their part of Syria and politically link up with the Kuridish region in Iraq. In the long run they will make much better allies than most others in the region outside of Israel, and that includes the phony NATO member, Turkey.
“there’s going to have to be something done congressionally or more comprehensively” to revive the beleaguered nation following more than 14 years of civil war.
Just no.
We are having a hard enough time saving ourselves, let alone the rest of the world.
We are having a hard enough time saving ourselves, let alone the rest of the world.
No. Instead bomb them with the rumored gay bomb and make the men have sex with each othe so they'll throw each other off of buildings. /sarc
again?
why can’t we ever get a civil war?
Syria is having seconds and we haven’t even gotten our first helping yet.
so unfair.
Liberal wet sheets to follow.
‘Syria’ is just another one of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s great successes.
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