US officials are increasingly public in their intentions to keep military forces inside Syria indefinitely. This is, however, raising questions that Trump Administration officials aren’t ready to answer, like why.
State Department special envoy James Jeffrey was the latest to take a crack at explaining US goals in Syria. As with previous answers, the claims are confusing, and contradict other official statements on the matter.
Jeffrey says US troops will stay in Syria because having US troops there has “certain implications for the rest of the situation,” and that the goal is enduring defeat of ISIS, and nothing else, saying it’s “not broader than that.”
According to John Bolton, however, it’s broader than that. Bolton didn’t even mention ISIS anymore, saying instead that the US troops in Syria are there to block the movement of Iran and Iranian allies.
Bolton agreed that US troops are staying in Syria indefinitely, but that they are holding out until Iran withdraws not only Iranian troops from Syria, but also “proxies,” which according to administration officials cover some 80% of Assad forces.
Bolton is a relic from former days, but NEVER has he had any idea of truth or facts, and NEVER has he said or done anything to contribute to the real needs of the USA. Even his support of Israel, unswerving and outspoken, probably does not help the “only democracy in the ME” because it is so extreme it is likely to get reasonable people thinking perhaps not all is really true.
He made a career out of being a clown, always a big mouth, never trusted to be anywhere real power. Nikki Haley is going in his footsteps. And when we hear of country club people like Kay Bailey Hutchinson representing us in NATO, and looking at UK’s another female clown in Security council — and not to forget Albreight and Hillary, what can the world conclude about the women in positions of mimicking power, selling themselves to the masters in shadows. Bolton fits in with this crop of ventriloquists for the real masters.
US soldiers will continue to be in Syria because the boss (Israel) wants them to.
Keeping US troops in Syria because they have “certain implications for the rest of the situation” is a mealymouthed way of saying, Israel wants them there, and anything Israel wants, they get! Crazy Trumpsters should have MIGA (Make Israel Greater Again) on their ball caps, not MAGA.
More proof that Trump doesnt really have control of the government, the CIA/NSA/FBI deep state calls the shots.
Or, the troops are exactly where the CIC wants them.
Unfortunately we lack democratic processes in this country so we have ignorant warmongering appointees like Jeffrey and Bolton rather than our elected representatives deciding war and peace.
Senator Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., has unsuccessfully tried for more than a year to use her seat on the Foreign Relations and Armed Services committees to create a study group on Syria. She had no luck. Most recently, Shaheen inserted the provision into this year’s defense authorization bill. But the review did not survive reconciliation with the House.
So Shaheen took a different tack. The Senate is set to vote this week on the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Reauthorization Act. Following negotiations between the House and Senate, the 1,207-page bill now includes language tasking Congress with assembling an independent, 12-member Syria panel to “examine and make recommendations on the military and diplomatic strategy” in the war-torn country. . .here
Being the global joke. While Britain left a great deal behind after colonial era ended, from infrastructure to running utilities, institutions. US is known only for destruction. The representative pronouncements by our dear leaders are the demonstration of the stupidity camouflaged as strategic ambiguity.
It’s like placing a Tiffany blue icing on a pile of crap then ask whether it’s turquoise or aqua blue.