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| US plans complete withdrawal of troops from Syria | |
| 2018-12-20 | |
| [Al Jazeera] The United States has started withdrawing its troops from Syria, the White House said on Wednesday, after 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... declared that the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS, also know as ISIS) group has been defeated in the country. White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said that "victories over ISIS in Syria do not signal the end of the Global Coalition or its campaign". "We have started returning United States troops home as we transition to the next phase of this campaign," she added. "The United States and our allies stand ready to re-engage at all levels to defend American interests whenever necessary, and we will continue to work together to deny radical Islamist terrorists' territory, funding, support and many means of infiltrating our borders." Sanders's comments came after reports surfaced that the US was considering a full troop withdrawal from the country. A complete, rapid withdrawal, if confirmed, would upend assumptions about a longer-term US military presence in Syria, which US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and other senior US officials had advocated to help ensure ISIS cannot re-emerge. Still, President Donald Trump has previously expressed a strong desire to bring troops home from Syria when possible. Prior to Sanders's statement on Wednesday, Trump tweeted, "We have defeated ISIS in Syria, my only reason for being there during the Trump Presidency."
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| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 #3 Why do we even need an ally in the Middle East? You're being sarcastic? Or are you really that obtuse? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2018-12-20 11:41 |
| #3 Why do we even need an ally in the Middle East? What are we even doing there? Endless war is all I see. How do we know we've won? What's the victory condition we're working towards? We don't have one, at least not in public. And that suits the unelected US government just fine. They're making a mint off this. |
| Posted by: Herb McCoy 2018-12-20 10:16 |
| #2 To leave our most effective fighting ally in the Middle East at the mercy of the Turkey or Syria/Iran is a damn crime. Instead of withdrawing the 2,000 troops from Syria, withdraw 10,000 of the 15,000 troops from an unsupportable Afghanistan or most of the 9,000 from babysitting duties in Iraq. |
| Posted by: Tarzan Hitler4525 2018-12-20 09:09 |
| #1 Press Release today on Syria: President Trump is honoring his promise on Syria Five years ago, ISIS was a powerful, destructive force in the Middle East. By late May 2015, the terrorist group would control half of Syria—including all of the country’s border crossings with Iraq. The American people were rightly worried. Then-candidate Donald J. Trump made them two solemn promises. The first was that America and its allies would defeat ISIS. The second was that our troops would never be put in harm’s way longer than absolutely necessary to protect the American people. In his first days in office, President Trump changed the rules of engagement, empowering U.S. military commanders on the ground. The results were unmistakable. In August 2017, The Washington Post reported that gains against ISIS had “dramatically” accelerated on his watch: “Nearly a third of territory reclaimed from the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria since 2014 has been won in the past six months.” Eight months later, in April 2018, President Trump announced that “over the last year, nearly 100 percent of the territory once controlled by the so-called ISIS caliphate in Syria and Iraq has been liberated and eliminated.” Today, the President is honoring his promise. “As other nations step up their contributions, we look forward to the day when we can bring our warriors home,” he said in April. This morning, Press Secretary Sarah Sanders announced that “we have started returning United States troops home as we transition to the next phase of this campaign.” The Global Coalition against ISIS will not end. “The United States and our allies stand ready to re-engage at all levels to defend American interests whenever necessary.” |
| Posted by: Neville Dark Lord of the Wee Folk7365 2018-12-20 01:57 |