President Biden falsely claimed that the US does not have a military presence in Syria when defending his decision to pull out of Afghanistan. In an interview with ABC on Wednesday night, Biden pointed to the so-called “threats” in Syria and Africa.
“There’s a significantly greater threat to the United States from Syria. There’s a significantly greater threat from East Africa. There’s significant greater threat to other places in the world than it is from the mountains of Afghanistan.” he said. “We don’t have military in Syria to make sure that we’re gonna be protected.”
There has been a presence of US troops in Syria since the Obama administration. There are currently about 900 US soldiers in the country’s northeast. On paper, the US presence is about supporting the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) against ISIS. But the occupation is also a part of Washington’s economic war against Damascus.
The region of Syria where US troops are deployed is where most of the country’s oil fields are located. By occupying the area, the US is keeping the vital resource out of the Syrian government’s hands. The US also maintains crippling sanctions on Syria that specifically target the energy and construction sectors, making it difficult for the country to rebuild after 10 years of war.
The Biden administration has no plans to pull out of Syria, and Biden’s comments suggest the US might be preparing to send more troops. The US recently announced it is ending its “combat” mission in Iraq, but troops will remain in an advisory role indefinitely. Part of the reason the US doesn’t want to give up its bases in Iraq is that they support the occupation of Syria.
Biden recently escalated airstrikes against al-Shabaab in Somalia, another region he claims there are threats facing the US. At the end of July and early August, the US bombed Somalia three times after a long pause in drone strikes in the country.
US officials claim al-Shabaab is a threat to the US homeland due to their al-Qaeda affiliation. But the reality is, al-Shabaab is a local group that only pledged loyalty to al-Qaeda after years of fighting the US and its proxies, including a US-backed Ethiopian invasion of Somalia. The first attack al-Shabaab took credit for was in 2007 against Ethiopian soldiers in Mogadishu. It wasn’t until 2012 that the group pledged loyalty to al-Qaeda.
The US is also expanding special forces operations across the African continent. Earlier this week, the president of the Democratic Republic of Congo said he authorized the deployment of US special operations forces to his country.
Joe lives on another planet!
“There’s a significantly greater threat to the United States from Syria. There’s a significantly greater threat from East Africa. There’s significant greater threat to other places in the world than it is from the mountains of Afghanistan.” he said. “We don’t have military in Syria to make sure that we’re gonna be protected.”
Back to normal. Joe’s just giving advanced notice where the assets wasted in Afghanistan will be wasted elsewhere.
….exactly.
Syrians must be frustrated for being starved, killed, and occupied by a country they never attacked, while the leader of that country doesn’t even remember what he’s doing to them. What’s worse is the US population doesn’t seem to care and shows no mercy. Should the Syrians consider changing their status from humans to animals for more mercy?
The US is only following orders from Tel Aviv.
Yeah, but if you think it’s bad now, just wait till President Harris arrives. Biden is a senile old warmonger, but I pray he continues on as POTUS, for what’s waiting in the wings is going to be worse. Lot’s worse. This very site has written about the situation.
Kamala Harris Has an Israel Problem. That Is a Deal-Breaker for Me
Thanks for that link, Zachary. Oh, that tired old meme on “making the desert bloom”; Mother Nature created areas conducive to forests, rivers, plains, lakes, and yes, deserts. Deserts aren’t SUPPOSED to bloom. They’re deserts.
If Israel made the “desert bloom” it’s because they’re stealing all the water from the Jordan.
Come on, there’re so many countries, though. You can’t expect him to keep track of All his wheelings and dealings …
LOL. Mark Twain found a solution over a century ago. Mark Twain — ‘If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.’
There is a significantly greater threat to the United States from Washington DC.
There are two Types of US Troops in Syria: Combat Troops and Thief Troops….! Biden was referring to the latter…!
A lifetime of plagiarism is pushing him toward his end.
Three and one-half more years will be unbearable.
In addition to those troops in Syria, the US also maintains an even larger number of former troops now working on contracts as private mercenaries.
The US treats them in practice as its own soldiers, as see when four were killed in Fallujah and the US reacted by destroying the city and killing thousands, many civilians trapped there.
The US routinely pretends they are not there, not counting them as “troops.” That is a trick that Cheney started, just like his pretense that Guantanamo is “not the US.” Power is served, and excuses made, and truth nevermind nobody cares.
Why is it that we’re supposedly fighting all these terrorist groups in some countries while arming and supporting them in others?
Here’s the elephant in the room no one wants to talk about…. most of the US presence overseas isnt military, but subcontractors with a military and/or espionage background.. for every 1 US soldier there are probably 100 spooks and 500 mercs