The ISIS bus convoy, evacuating fighters and civilians from the Lebanon border, remains stranded in the middle of Syria, with the US insisting all ISIS within must be killed. Eight days in, it’s getting increasingly unpleasant to be stuck in those buses.
US officials have reported that they are now making it a stated policy that every time an ISIS suspect gets out of the bus to pee, if they get too far away from the buses, they’ll be killed. The US is claiming that there’ve been 40 distinct strikes, between people needing to pee and vehicles that got too close to the convoy.
Though a lot of reports suggest that a lot of the ISIS on the buses got away, there are still a ton of civilians within. The US had grudgingly allowed water to be delivered to the buses to avoid the civilians dying of thirst, but has insisted that Syria is totally to blame for their suffering.
Lt. Gen. Stephen Townsend says the Syrian government should’ve always known that the US was never going to accept the evacuation, and that in making such a deal they are “letting women and children suffer.”
Let’s be honest with ourselves, it is not as if those women and children will ever be productive and beneficial to the world, the death cult got them, so lets just put these animals down before they cause any more drama.
You do not have to be productive in order to have the right to live. Soldiers that surrender, civilians and wounded are in the convoy — and this amounts to war crime. WE do not have to immitare ISIS cruelty, in order to be tough.
But the real question is, why is that considered US territory? There are NO Kurds there, so what is US doing there? Supporting whom on the ground? Fighting ISIS there, I mean real ISIS not people who need to pee.
US cut the deal with ISIS fighters to leave the city of Manbij, turned the city over to Kurds, who promptly ethnically cleansed Arabs from the town. Then came Tabha dam, again, ISIS alliowed to leave in the direction of Deir Azzor. Raqqa has been evacuated by ISIS long time ago. Massive columns of heavy artillery, rocket launchers, and hundreds of trucks with weapons and ammunition were miving out of Raqqa. Only Russia was bombing the convoys.
The problem with any military operation run by our generals is the concept of staying. There is no definition of win and keave foreign land following the win.
The long dead Al-Baghdadi is according to a general alive and hiding in Euphrates valley. How original. Plan to stay, by any chance?
I feel sorry for Trump. He says no nation building, generals go into nation building. He wants them to fight ISIS, they let ISIS go to fight another day.
But when it comes to unarmed convoy, then it all goes to top alert — watching their pering schedule. So far, HSVdid not see combat against ISIS.
The reason they were let go was they were serving a purpose for the Neo Con establishment, namely working to oust Assad. As the US priorities have changed, these useful idiots are no longer useful. Also, considering their ideology and crimes they have committed, there is no real society (save for Saudi Arabia) where they will fit in.
Russians been doing this for a long time.
And what authority does the US have to preside over decisions or arrangements the Syrian government makes?
The real authority in state craft, might makes right. I am not saying it is just or moral, just the reality of empire.
And the laughable thing is the USG can’t get much done domestically unless it’s approved by israel, turkey, mexico, wall street, hollywood, etc.
Syria should declare a no-fly zone around that convoy and down anything flying near it.