Sen. Rand Paul is planning to force a vote on a resolution he introduced to withdraw all US troops from Syria, as US bases in the country have come under frequent attack since mid-October, Responsible Statecraft reported on Wednesday.
Paul introduced the resolution on November 15, and it would order the removal of the approximately 900 US troops stationed in Syria within 30 days unless President Biden receives authorization for war from Congress.
Sources told RS that the vote could happen as early as next week. Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) introduced a similar resolution in the House earlier this year, which failed in a vote of 103-321.
According to the Pentagon, there have been at least 73 attacks on US troops in Iraq and Syria, including over 30 in Syria. The attacks started on October 17 in response to President Biden’s support for Israel’s onslaught in Gaza.
The US has conducted several rounds of airstrikes in response, which have killed at least 15 people, according to US officials speaking to The New York Times. Strikes launched in Iraq targeted Kataib Hezbollah, a leading Iraqi Shia militia that’s aligned with Iran.
There has been a lull in attacks since the Israel-Hamas truce went into effect on Friday, but Kataib Hezbollah and other Shia militias have signaled the attacks will resume once the pause in Gaza is over. The Iraqi government has warned without a durable ceasefire in Gaza, the war risks escalating into a major regional conflict.
The US occupation of eastern Syria, which is strongly opposed by Damascus, has always been a possible trip wire for a broader war in the region due to Russia and Iran’s presence in the country. On paper, the US is in the country to help fight ISIS remnants, but the occupation is part of the economic campaign against Syria, which also includes crippling sanctions, and is seen by hawks in Washington as a hedge against Iran.
Good for him, but I don’t see congress signing on.
Same here.
Good for him, and this is really happening? I’ve met Syrians who were asked to help MI carry out false flag attacks over there. Sickening.
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Syrians have a strong Government with Assad and do not need our interference in how they deal with ISIS, which came to Syria courtesy of the USA. We need to stop sanctions on Syria so they can rebuild their country. Assad is the one responsible for protecting Christians in Syria, instead of bombing them like Israel does in Gaza. Get out of Iraq to, Arabs know America can NOT be trusted, always doing the bidding of Israel.
Quite a few countries we do not need be at.
Assad is really bad person. He created something like 7 million refugees with half that number going to Turkey.
What does whether Assad is a bad person have to do with anything? If that’s the standard for justifying invasion/occupation, then pretty much every regime on Earth (including the US) should be lining up to have its territory invaded and occupied, almost certainly by another regime that’s no better.
Agreed.
Just pointed out that he is not that wonderful of a person. Never claimed that what he did justifies US involvement in Syria.
Syria appears to me more complicated. Turkey restricted water, and there were already too many people.
Syrians can’t access their farmland and oil, are bombed regularly. They face sanctions. They don’t have the potential for an economy. Syria is strangled.
If you put in a pro-Israel government that agreed to the Israeli annexation and ignored Palestinians, maybe they’d have prosperity. Turkey would demand action against Kurds.
But that’s not my business.
You didn’t explicitly claim it, but you surely implied it given that your comment was responding to vlp1730 saying:
“Quite a few countries we do not need be at.”
You then replied:
“Assad is really bad person. He created something like 7 million refugees with half that number going to Turkey.”
Any reasonable person would conclude that what you were doing here was trying to justify the American occupation of Syrian territory. But to the point: while Assad is a “bad man” he is less bad than the criminals running the USA who are directly responsible for increasing the slaughter in Syria. The revolt would have been put down in a matter of weeks (months at most) if the US and its allies had not funneled in a bunch of weapons arming the worst jihadi groups (including Al-Qaeda) in Syria.
thank you
The US created the refugees not Assad. US/NATO has been looting Syria for years.
Zionism, Terrorism and Nazism is the means by which the western global elites wage war for Profit. And business is good.
That is insane.
insanity seems to pay well.
i would say welcome to the New American Century
but it has been going on a lot longer than this.
“The Syrian Arab Army and with the help of Russia captured a shipment of chemical weapons destined for the Eastern Ghouta. These were British weapons produced at Porton Down in Salisbury.
The entire narrative in Syria is a scam created by the global elite to loot Syria.
Russia has indicated that the Skripal incident is related to Porton Downs chemical weapons smuggling, Skiripal was working at Porton Down as a chemical weapons trafficker in partnership with a Ukrainian firm. Russia denies attacking Skripal but admits he was under surveillance for his activities involving support of terrorism in Syria and arms trafficking.
Swiss Lab confirms “BZ toxin” produced in US or UK used in Salisbury poisoning. Sergei Skripal, a former Russian double agent, and his daughter Yulia were poisoned with an incapacitating toxin known as 3-Quinuclidinyl benzilate or BZ.
The Swiss lab also commented at the presence of the nerve agent A234 in the samples, but added that the lab noted that its presence in the samples appeared strange, given the substance’s high volatility and the relatively long period between the poisoning and the sample-taking.
Ok Jake………..
The US created the refugees not Assad. US/NATO has been looting Syria for years.
Zionism, Terrorism and Nazism is the means by which the western global elites wage war for Profit. And business is good.
The US created the refugees not Assad. US/NATO has been looting Syria for years.
Zionism, Terrorism and Nazism is the means by which the western global elites wage war for Profit. And business is good.
Timmie, Jake, Don Julio, good morning! How is your keyboard? Have you come to grips that multiple personalities dwell within your brain. How can I tell? The words you vomit up are always the same, no matter what venue you post, no matter what name you use.
No, Assad didn’t “create” the Syrian refugee problem; that was caused by the phony, US-supported “Arab Spring” revolts, that started the civil war – which was NEVER about “democracy”. We encouraged and supported sunni jihadist groups, including ISIS and Al Qaeda affiliates, in their holy war against the Shia, the Alawites, the Druze, Syrian Christians, and Kurds. Then we armed and supported the Kurds, many of whom belonged to affiliates of the terrorist PKK against the jihadists, and Turkey invaded Syria to defeat the PKK-associated Kurds we had armed. Then we invaded ourselves, to fight the ISIS-affiliated jihadists we had previously supported, and to aid the Al-Qaeda affiliated jihadists against the ISIS-affiliated jihadists, and to support the PKK-affiliated Kurds against Assad but also against our NATO ally Turkey. And then collaborated in the “false flag” terrorist-induced “chlorine gas” attack and blamed it on Assad, and then complained about “Russian meddling”.
And, once it was clear that Assad with Russian, Lebanese-Hezbollah and Iranian help was going to win the civil war, we seized Syrian oil fields, encouraged Israel to bomb Syrian infrastructure, and embargoed the hell out of the country, going so far as to deny Syria humanitarian assistance after their massive earthquake.
But yeah; “Assad is a Bad Man”.
All for show. The chance of passing both houses is slim to none. Than there is the minor problem of the veto. Having said that, I’m all for leave Syria.
Rand Paul reminds me of Emmanuel Macron… Once in a while he has to do something to entertain himself…!
The troops (the units never identified, but they are National Guard weekend warriors) are suffering brain injuries for no reason except to steal Syria’s oil.
Paul introduced the resolution on November 15, and it would order the removal of the approximately 900 US troops stationed in Syria within 30 days unless President Biden receives authorization for war from Congress.
i suspect Rand’s resolution is a some kind of red herring designed to make himself look good. because he knows that congress will neither pass his resolution nor will Biden authorize war against Syria. if war against Syria is authorized, the entire pretense of fighting against ISIS, who are Assad’s enemies, goes out the window because the US would then be fighting against Assad out in the open.
All he can do is put them on the record, and he’s doing that. I doubt he has any illusions that the Senate has any sort of conscience.
I think Paul is sincere. I really don’t see how it makes him “look good”. To whom? Certainly not to voters since we overwhelmingly continue to vote pro war candidates into office.
Zionism, Terrorism and Nazism is the means by which the western global elites wage war for Profit. And business is good.
Its no coincidence that as Afghanistan is ended, we see Ukraine begin, and as Ukraine is ending we see the ME restart.
For the Palestinian people the Star of David is equivalent to a Swastika. For the Russian people NATO is equivalent to Nazi Germany. For the Afghanistan people the US is equivalent to ISIS.
But for the global elite the cash keeps rolling in which is why the US occupies the oil rich regions of Syria. And in Syria ISIS is the US.
Al-Qaeda (Jabhat al-Nusra) is the father of ISIS they both more or less seek US goals, Islamic State is directly financed by the Gulf States and Israel, while Al-Qaeda is funded by US/Britain and France.
The “Free Syrian Army” (FSA) receive US and EU training, weapons, and financing in order to fight directly against the Syrian Army, and thus push for Assad’s removal.
The “Free Syrian Army” was a phony front for the jihadists; the weapons they received were passed on to the extreme elements, the “fighters” we trained then fought for ISIS or Al Qaeda affiliates. A colossal waste. And yeah, they “fought” Assad (in between murdering Christians, Alawites, Shia, Yazidis, Druze, and each other) but we then ended up helping “fight” against them. The forces we supported and created are the “reason” we remain in Syria.
Sen. Rand Paul is planning to force a vote on a resolution he introduced to withdraw all US troops from Syria
Over or under 10 yes votes? My guess is under.
Good line on it … I’m guessing right at 10 … you work for Vegas? 🙂
Seems about right.
Plain Logic says the US has as much right to send troops to Syria against Syria’s will, as Russia has to send troops into Ukraine against Ukraine’s will. Of course, we all know the US is never hypocritical.
Except that in eastern Ukraine Russia is most welcomed. It is the Maidan-installed government which still believes there is nothing wrong with joining NATO even though Russia has made it clear it will not accept this.
US troops out of Syria and Iraq? Anti-Semitic much?
How long before Senator Paul gets censured by The Swamp for “anti-semitism” ?