Trump administration plans to pull U.S. troops from Syria immediately
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The Trump administration is planning to pull all U.S. troops out of Syria, a defense official said on Wednesday, as President Trump declared victory against the Islamic State.
The president, in a message on Twitter, said the United States had “defeated ISIS in Syria, my only reason for being there during the Trump Presidency.”
His statement came shortly after news organizations reported that the White House had made a decision on Tuesday to abruptly remove the entire U.S. force of more than 2,000 troops from Syria and end the extended American ground campaign against the Islamic State.
Trump has long promised to conclude the campaign against the Islamic State, also known as ISIS, and has questioned the value of costly and dangerous military missions overseas. But U.S. troops, working alongside Syrian partner forces, have struggled to eradicate remaining pockets of militants in central Syria. An abrupt American withdrawal would raise questions about whether the militants would be more easily able to regain strength.
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December 19, 2018 at 10:35 AM #2340
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December 20, 2018 at 1:27 PM #2850
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December 23, 2018 at 9:59 AM #4091
Democratic Party partisans. It is a similar condition to Obama derangement syndrome, usually found in Republican Party partisans who were similarly opposed to anything proposed by Barack Obama. Donald Trump himself has a full-blown case of that one.
What both syndromes have in common is that both completely ignore issues of policy, be those policies foreign or domestic.
I admit that using the term “policy” is a bit of a stretch for Trump on the Syria matter, as he has no foreign policy that I can discern, unless you call personal enrichment and kneejerk reaction policy.
It is better to vote for what you want and not get it than to vote for what you don't want and get it.--Eugene Debs
Show me a man that gets rich by being a politician, and I'll show you a crook.--Harry Truman
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December 19, 2018 at 10:36 AM #2341
Turkish president renews threat to launch offensive against Kurds in U.S.-controlled territory in Syria
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan escalated his threats Monday of a military attack on U.S.-controlled territory in northeastern Syria, while the U.S. military insisted that the two countries were “making progress” in resolving their differences.
Erdogan said that President Trump had “responded positively” in a Friday telephone call to one Turkish demand — that U.S.-allied Syrian Kurdish forces be moved out of the Syrian town of Manbij. But Erdogan said that Turkish operations farther to the east, where Kurdish fighters occupy a series of Syrian border towns, were ready to start “at any moment now.”
Turkey, Erdogan said during a speech in central Konya province, would act “without harming the U.S. soldiers” in border observation posts and interspersed among the Kurdish fighters.
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December 19, 2018 at 10:44 AM #2347
Especially for the people of Syria who have been through so much horrific suffering during the war orchestrated against Syria. It was never a civil war as reported by western media due to the fact that western and Gulf State powers along with Israel pumped money and jihadists into the country. They used NGO’s to fool the public and orchestrate regime change.
I’m no fan of Trump but this is certainly a good development. I saw some videos the other day showing Syrians celebrating Christmas in a number of cities. That was quite nice to see as the terrorists there aimed to kill Christians and other religious sects that were not strictly Sunni Wahabi Salafists.
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December 19, 2018 at 10:48 AM #2349When you’re wounded and left on Afghanistan’s plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.Rudyard Kipling
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December 19, 2018 at 10:59 AM #2359
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December 19, 2018 at 11:32 AM #2369
Way to go Trump!
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December 19, 2018 at 11:52 AM #2379
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December 23, 2018 at 8:02 AM #4071
I read somewhere–can’t find it now–we are pulling 7,000 troops out of Afghanistan…
“Hope is the feathered thing that perches in your heart.” ~ Emily Dickinson
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December 19, 2018 at 12:12 PM #2386
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December 19, 2018 at 12:44 PM #2401
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December 19, 2018 at 12:53 PM #2411
Well, that’s today. We’ll see about tomorrow.
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December 19, 2018 at 12:59 PM #2415
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December 19, 2018 at 1:33 PM #2428
Since it is Trump and seems to announce such things as a way to negotiate, eg. could be taking this position just to get something from the MIC in order to stay.
Also, as we have seen, it is not really up to Trump whether we stay in Syria or not and every time Assad is on the eve of victory or resolution he mysteriously commits a “gas attack” that forces us to stay.
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December 19, 2018 at 2:41 PM #2461
to finance his wall.
He definitely is not concerned about the Syrian people.
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December 19, 2018 at 4:22 PM #2509
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December 20, 2018 at 1:57 AM #2708
I would like to see some quotes. I’m highly skeptical that European leaders favor an increased probability for conflict with Russia.
And look at the Washington Post pretend that US foreign policy brings security to the ME.
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December 20, 2018 at 8:36 AM #2744
Another switcheroo after another false flag gas attack.
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December 20, 2018 at 12:42 PM #2839
As belated as this is imo, it is surely better than what Hillary would have done.
I believe that she’d have accomplished ‘regime change’ in Syria by now, (regardless of what the Syrian citizenry wanted and further straining relations with Russia), and she’d been well into doing the same in Iran.
That said, one must always wonder if President Trump actually plans on doing what he says or if he’s playing some sort of 1/2 dimensional tiddley winks.
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December 20, 2018 at 7:32 PM #3040
Great line. Needs no explanation after so many years of Obama apologists and multi-dimensional chess excuses.
In the case of the President, could it conceivably be possible that his true motives are to please Putin? I mean, the man-boy thinks of no one but himself: he probably doesn’t even attempt to please Melania . . . . He doesn’t appear to be able to think beyond the end of his nose.
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December 20, 2018 at 2:24 PM #2871
Turkey will probably move in and slaughter them without protection. Right or wrong, we encouraged them to help us.
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December 23, 2018 at 10:07 AM #4094
than the United States. Besides, after what happened to the Hmong, South Vietnamese, Cambodians, Saddam Hussein himself, and I don’t know how many others, it is clear folly for anyone to trust the American Empire to keep its word to protect them.
I would never have made any longterm commitment to the Kurds in the first place, and am opposed to any military involvement to protect them now. I always ask two questions: One, would I fight for this cause?, and Two, would I ask my stepsons to fight for this cause? If the answer to either one is No, then I’m opposed to American military intervention.
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