The Trump Administration continues to backpedal on a withdrawal of US
troops from Syria. Announced in December, it was originally said to
cover all 2,000 troops there. Now, indications are that around 1,000 of the troops will be staying.
This followed previous claims that 200 or 400 troops would be left behind. Officials say no exact number i2 settled on yet, but if anything it seems the momentum is for the number to keep going up.
Officially, the justification for this is that the Kurdish SDF’s offensive against the last ISIS village of Baghouz continues to go poorly, and US officials will be mostly staying in Syria to participate in the endless war against Baghouz with the Kurds.
In practice, a lot of people in the administration, particularly the
Pentagon, never wanted a withdrawal from Syria to begin with, and have
been chipping away at it so long now that its been cut in half, and
there’s still no sign of anyone leaving.
Sickening.
1,000 admitted official troops, but how many thousands more SDF and mercenaries? Regime change is still the plan. Justin ?
USA is a persistent, inoperable cancer on the world.
“Netanyahu: ‘America is a thing you can move very easily'” (16 July 2010), …
It is good that Mr. Trump is not my dentist because he might either pull out too few or too many of my teeth.
After I finish your mouth, you are going to be so happy…….
With the US long history of broken words, agreements and treaties, how can anyone in their right mind, believe in anything coming from US administrations and politicians who are paid and bought by corporations and special interest groups.
Do I hear 1200? Going once, going twice…..
Great news for us war mongers, as long as we occupy we can gurentee turmoil, lots of body’s and continued military spending which is great for US economy.
After Trump and Netanyahu get their war with Iran, no one will care about a few hundred troops still in Syria. We’ll have other concerns, like WWIII and the survival of the human species for instance.
The anti-interventionists have the blood of Rwandans on their hands. Great decisions by the President, cleaning up the messes of his two predecessors.
And, meantime, Tom, America’s crumbling infrastructure’s crumbling even worse. Pres. Trump – in both his campaign and Inaugural speeches – pledged to end these endless wars of aggression and repair our ever-crumbling infrastructure. How many roads, railways, bridges, etc. are in dire need of repair? How many more train accidents will it take before the railroads are fixed? How many more bridge collapses will it take before they’re repaired? And, what about sewage and storm pipes? How many of them will keep bursting before they’re replaced?
To hell with waging illegal wars of aggression worldwide .. End them and start fixing our crumbling infrastructure.
Actually, the Rwandans who participated in the genocide have the blood of Rwandans on their hands.
Do you have the blood of Sharon Tate on your hands? After all, you didn’t intervene the night the Manson family stopped by.
By next month it’ll be 4,000. So much for putting America first. Oh, but Hillary would have been worse, so who cares how badly the Donald sodomizes his base.
This is only true if:
1. The original number was over 2000 and someone slipped up.
2. Trump and Pentagon did not count special forces and support as part of the “troop” level.
Has the USA ever left anywhere?
Contest as to who is pres/decision maker: bolton, kushner, or nitenyaaahooo.
it sure as hell ain’t trump-he controls nothing.