A US military convoy was chased out of the Syrian village of Farafrah on Wednesday, with locals throwing stones at the vehicles. Syrian state media was present and filmed the incident. There were no casualties reported.
This is the second time a US military patrol has found itself in an area where they were very unwelcome in northeast Syria. Though the US suggests Syrian forces are rabble rousing, much of this seems to be anger among locals for the US leaving their territory during the Turkish invasion, and wandering back in whenever it suits them.
US troops in northeast Syria are nominally there to “control the oil,” and it’s not clear why they carry out these patrols in territory they no longer claim in the first place. The vehicles quickly sped off when faced with a crowd, however.
The Pentagon has yet to officially comment on this incident, nor have the Kurdish SDF forces which are still working intermittently with the US troops.
Its laughable that the heavily armed US troops can be chased away by a crowd of civilians throwing stones at them. The US is making a laughing stock of themselves in Syria. Why do they not go home?
To their credit they chose not to massacre the people because you know we would have gotten away with it. FOX news would have portrayed it as Russian / Iranian / Assad aggression.
How will this end, the delusion of how FOX / the U.S. public thinks the world sees us vs how the world really sees us.
Maybe when enough Americans are hungry and homeless they will tell their government to stop spending money so foolishly and use it to take care of Americans instead.
We’d better plan on doing that through force because our government will laugh in our collective faces otherwise.
Why do they not go home ? Simple, they haven’t been ordered to do so.
Surprised they didn’t mow them down and claim self defense. Or at least set up a make shift prison to lock them up like our special friend does.
Good for them!
Exactly, JP. Good for those villagers! They showed quite courage in throwing those stones at a US military convoy that didn’t belong on their lands. In fact, only Russian, Iranian, and Hezbollah forces were invited by the legitimate government of Bashar Assad .. All other foreign forces must withdraw,
They only did what we’d all do in similar circumstances.
Peace
And to boot that one of the rebel groups supported by the US defected to the Syrian Arab Army recently. Only a matter of time when US forces have no choice but to leave Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.
Good. The US should be chased out of every country in the Middle East. They’ve got no business whatsoever being there.
You Canadians have let more Chinese into your country out of sheer GREED…
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The death throes of PNAC and the glorious conservative vision of a libertarian America loving “tax free market” Utopia across the Middle East. LOL