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| US will continue to work with Israel over Syria and Iran: Pompeo |
| 2019-01-02 |
| [PRESSTV] US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said that Washington will continue to work closely with Israel over Syria and Iran, despite President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... ’s announcement of withdrawing American troops from Syria. Pompeo made the remarks as he met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Brazilian capital Brasilia on Tuesday. The top US diplomat said President Trump’s announcement of pulling out troops from Syria "in no way changes anything that this administration is working on alongside Israel." "The counter-ISIS (ISIS) campaign continues, our efforts to counter Iranian aggression continue and our commitment to Middle East stability and the protection of Israel continues in the same way it did before that decision was made," he said. Trump announced his decision to withdraw the US troops from Syria on December 19, saying that ISIS had been defeated. The next day Trump proclaimed that US troops cannot stay in Syria "forever." Several senators on both sides of the aisle have accused Trump of making a hasty decision, with one administration official saying "the President's decision-by-tweet will recklessly put American and allied lives in danger around the world." But several others, like Republican Senator Rand Paul and former congressman Dr. Ron Paul, have defended Trump's decision to withdraw the American troops in Syria, with Dr. Paul saying that the United States needs to "have a clean cut" with military involvement in the Middle East. |
| Posted by:Fred |