Posted on 07/19/2017 1:51:22 PM PDT by Enlightened1
President Trump has decided to end the CIAs covert program to arm and train moderate Syrian rebels battling the government of Bashar al-Assad, a move long sought by Russia, according to U.S. officials.
The program was a central plank of a policy begun by the Obama administration in 2013 to put pressure on Assad to step aside, but even its backers have questioned its efficacy since Russia deployed forces in Syria two years later.
Officials said the phasing out of the secret program reflects Trumps interest in finding ways to work with Russia, which saw the anti-Assad program as an assault on its interests. The shuttering of the program is also an acknowledgment of Washingtons limited leverage and desire to remove Assad from power.
Just three months ago, after the United States accused Assad of using chemical weapons, Trump launched retaliatory airstrikes against a Syrian air base. At the time, U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, said that in no way do we see peace in that area with Assad at the head of the Syrian government.
Officials said Trump made the decision to scrap the CIA program nearly a month ago, after an Oval Office meeting with CIA Director Mike Pompeo and national security adviser H.R. McMaster ahead of a July 7 meeting in Germany with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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Not to even dare mention what the Russian allied Serb Chetniks are prepared to do to EU Muslims at the drop of a hat.
Help him to always remember that we can only be that great nation, to Your glory, if we order ourselves as a moral people. In Jesus’ Holy Name,
Amen.
That sounds intriguing. Would you have a link to an article or something that would fill me in?
A book called Seasons In Hell about the Bosnian War is my main source of understanding regarding that conflict. It’s written by a bedwetting liberal decrying to brutal mistreatment of the poor innocent Muslims at the hands of the Chetniks. If one reads it with the correct mindset however, it is a step by step guide on how to cleanse land of Muslims.
Thanks, I will get that book and read it. I’m well-versed in not wearing the left’s tinted goggles when I read their writings, almost everything “mainstream” has to be vetted for lefty subliminals these days. I’ve gotten pretty good at it. Conservatives need to write more on foreign policy (and I don’t mean the neo-cons). But then, the left has academia and the media sewn up, it seems.
The CIA (lead by a muslim convert) was backing the allies of ISIS in Aleppo weren’t they?
While the Pentagon has been backing the Kurds.
And they’ve been fighting each other. Another piece of Obama’s legacy goes away.
Nothing has changed since 2013.
Thank God!
I wonder if the decision was known earlier and spun that misanthrope into the hospital.
I agree, but he is in great danger simply doing this.
We need some sunshine, however. And if we do not expose and try some of these officials for their malignant, criminal actions, the Nuremberg Trials are reduced to a mere popularity contest.
Agree on all points, except that I’d opt for executions rather than incarcerations where the ‘policy goals’ resulted in the deaths of innocents.
Amen and amen. I have exactly the same thoughts. Exactly.
“Trump just volunteered for assassination by the service that makes the others nervous. You dont reign in the CIA without consequences.”
I agree with you. Which is why the organization should be dissolved, exposed to sunlight at least within select Congressional committees and the executive.
Salvage what is not corrupt or perverse, can the rest, and reinstitute a successor organization with a new name which is subordinate to the military and answerable for all actions and cash flow. Similar to the KGB overhaul into the FSB, but more thorough.
Fire the rest. If those continue to play the same games, kill them. They are seditious.
Yeah, I figure we’re at a point where the rule of law only applies when it’s convenient for the elites so, it doesn’t really apply anymore. We can get back to it after this existential war is over. To some extent, Trump’s election was a result of real Americans giving up on the political system. Hillary’s non prosecution proved that the judicial system is dead. What do we have left? The scotus’ gay marriage and Obama care decisions show that the US Constitution is dead.
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