While President-elect Donald Trump has indicated he intends to shift US military involvement in Syria toward a focus on fighting ISIS, and away from propping up rebel factions to attack the Assad government. This has been a subject of debate among US officials for awhile, with the Pentagon and CIA arguing intensely over who the US should be at war with in Syria.
Top hawks from both parties seem to be trying to undercut Trump’s shift toward fighting ISIS with their latest comments, as former Clinton Secretary of State Madeline Albright and former Bush National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley getting together to push for a shift toward direct US military attacks against the Syrian government.
The two offered a report which argued that focusing on ISIS was “isolationism,” and that the US needs to prepare to attack Syria outright both to prevent the Assad government from getting control over Aleppo and from retaining control over the nation’s west.
This plan is largely the plan Hillary Clinton ran on in the 2016 election, as she overtly talked about military action even if it meant getting the US in a shooting war with Russia as well. Trump, however, rejected this idea repeatedly, insisting that a war with Russia is not in America’s interest.
Incredibly, Hadley talked to Reuters about the plan, and conceded that it might well make the situation in Syria even worse than it already is, but insisting it was worth a try because “what’s now going on isn’t working.”
If that ghastly creature Albright is in favor of something, you just know it’s evil, stupid, and wrong.
Clinton’s ideas seem dumb, old and useless. She is a relic, like the 2-party system that produces things like her.
How is what is going on now not working? One side is about to win and then there will be peace hopefully. What exactly did Syria ever do to us? I must have missed that bit.
Syria is Israel’s enemy. That’s why we are there
Very, very close. Let me help.
“Israel is Syria’s enemy. That’s why we are there.”
(Syria is nobody’s enemy.)
Syria under Assad has never “done” anything against us. My only explanation for the military and political involvement of our governments beginning with Bush 2 is the formation of obedient client-states in Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan primarily against Iran and secondarily against Russia. Nothing else makes sense to me even though that strategy was senseless from the start.
It’s about the US “securing the realm for the greater israel.”
There is allot of money and influence being put to bear on eliminating Assad. AIPAC and other Israeli agencies are hard at work to see to it that the USA takes out Syria as they did Iraq and soon Iran.
It’s always “worth it” to neos.
From the Reuters article cited by Jason, we find this:
“Largely drafted before Republican Donald Trump’s victory over Democrat Hillary Clinton in the Nov. 8”
This tells me that “the report” was basically an employment application prepared in anticipation of a Clinton win. Whoops!, into the trash with that, and them. Fail!
Then from the same Reuters article:
[the report was] “Produced by a task force led by … Albright, and … Hadley, …”
A “task force”, eh? An “task force” whose members go unnamed in the article, no doubt due to space limitations. Let me help out…
Remember those 51 State Dept “Diplomats” who signed a letter urging US attacks on Syria.
“Fifty-one State Department officials are urging the Obama administration to conduct airstrikes against the Assad regime.”
http://www.theatlantic.com/news/archive/2016/06/state-department-syria-letter/487511/
and this:
Open Letter on Donald Trump from GOP National Security Leaders, http://warontherocks.com/2016/03/open-letter-on-donald-trump-from-gop-national-security-leaders/
“On” Donald Trump, not “to” Donald Trump. This letter was signed by 122 “leaders”, a virtual rogues gallery of the top neocon war-mongers.
Let me suggest that these 122+51 (though I expect some overlap) as probable members of the “task force”, and that every one of them was looking for a job in the Clinton (not!) presidency. Here’s hoping Pres Donald puts the list to good use, say by establishing a 173 member “think tank” at Camp 5, Guantanamo. They could “think” about how to accessorize Orange.
Too late, warmongers. The Syrian army will complete the liberation of Aleppo before the next reigning moron in the WH is crowned.
In Syria, the despicable Trump was the “peace candidate.” That sort of thing explains why Hillary lost.
The Democrats must move away from “bipartisan” war everywhere a la Bush. Instead, they doubled down on Russia bashing. They still do, actively agreeing with Bush guys such as Hadley.