Just when you thought our Syria policy could not get any worse, last week it did. The US military twice attacked Syrian government forces from a military base it illegally occupies inside Syria. According to the Pentagon, the attacks on Syrian government-backed forces were “defensive” because the Syrian fighters were approaching a US self-declared “de-confliction” zone inside Syria. The Syrian forces were pursuing ISIS in the area, but the US attacked anyway.
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The US is training yet another rebel group fighting from that base, located near the border of Iraq at al-Tanf, and it claims that Syrian government forces pose a threat to the US military presence there. But the Pentagon has forgotten one thing: it has no authority to be in Syria in the first place! Neither the US Congress nor the UN Security Council has authorized a US military presence inside Syria.
So what gives the Trump Administration the right to set up military bases on foreign soil without the permission of that government? Why are we violating the sovereignty of Syria and attacking its military as they are fighting ISIS? Why does Washington claim that its primary mission in Syria is to defeat ISIS while taking military actions that benefit ISIS?
The Pentagon issued a statement saying its presence in Syria is necessary because the Syrian government is not strong enough to defeat ISIS on its own. But the “de-escalation zones” agreed upon by the Syrians, Russians, Iranians, and Turks have led to a reduction in fighting and a possible end to the six-year war. Even if true that the Syrian military is weakened, its weakness is due to six years of US-sponsored rebels fighting to overthrow it!
What is this really all about? Why does the US military occupy this base inside Syria? It’s partly about preventing the Syrians and Iraqis from working together to fight ISIS, but I think it’s mostly about Iran. If the Syrians and Iraqis join up to fight ISIS with the help of Iranian-allied Shia militia, the US believes it will strengthen Iran’s hand in the region. President Trump has recently returned from a trip to Saudi Arabia where he swore he would not allow that to happen.
When you get to the point where your actions are actually helping ISIS, whether intended or not, perhaps it’s time to stop. It’s past time for the US to abandon its dangerous and counterproductive Syria policy and just bring the troops home.
Perpetual war for perpetual profits and perpetual power. The same reason our government ALWAYS gets us involved in other people’s business.
Why = Israel
A further explanation:
Remember when Trump tasked ‘Mad Dog’ to have a plan for Syria/ISIS in 30 days. IMO, it is a two-pronged plan. The first prong is for Israel; the 2nd entails the US/Proxy Army capturing Deir Ezzor and its oil area to use as a bargaining chip when peace talks begin and the oil fields will be used to have Assad resign and Syria Gov’t to retain the oil fields; this will allow the US to install a puppet Gov’t in Syria that will no longer allow Iran to move troops and weapons/rockets thru Syria to Lebanon for use against Israel.
The puppet Gov’t will also be a means to further isolate Iran for eventual dismemberment.
Russia will not let the US plan happen.
Although I love the guy and have supported him for 30 years he’s starting to piss me off. Why are they doing this? Because they can, are above the law and don’t give a shit about your opinions, Rand’s or anyone else’s. The talk of ‘civilian control’ of the military is a goddamn farce. They’re well past even coming up with lame excuses for their actions. I wish Ron would acknowledge this fact. This article suggests we all write sternly worded letters to ‘our’ representatives. Like the military honchos and their puppeteers give a rat’s ass about some flunky house member’s good opinion. Letters to the editors? Prayer vigils? Demonstrations? Reminds me of Al Haig when told of pickets outside of his pentagram office saying “Screw em. Let them walk. As long as they keep paying taxes, who cares?”
Get Real Ron. Attempting to change the ruling elite by voicing opinions, like voting, is worse than useless. It’s now resist or submit.
So, how are you resisting?
Posting gripes on minor internet blogs?
Minor? You ass.
Not paying taxes. Growing my own food. Community service and especially not voting.
Now pick a name you yellow asshole.
Yep, Ron Paul spent an entire career deluding his followers into “working within the system”. What a huge waste of time and money that is. I got sick of his half-stepping old ass a few years ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunduz_hospital_airstrike
While I get it, docs without borders is left leaning, {insert communists} when hasn’t the cult embraced leftists ?
They are loonie toons out of there minds bent upon there fathers business, death and misery for all.
Warpigs about sums it up
The U.S. has no business waging war in 98% of the countries we’re currently involved in. The reason we do it is to make money for the mil/ind complex.
Coast…..welcome back.
Please list the 2% that we have “business” being in.
Will the war opposition in this country ever get like it was during the Vietnam War? Or do we have to wait for thousands of soldiers to come home in body bags?
Do you think things will ever get to a point with the opposition where these soldiers in Syria today will be derided for defending ISIS, just as the soldiers returning from Vietnam were once derided as “Baby Killers”?
Or are most Americans so out of it they don’t even care…
With an all-volunteer military, churches, football/baseball/basketball/etc. stadiums performing worship services to the military at every event, non-stop pro-military propaganda and TV ads, and never-ending discounts for the wonderful veterans who “sacrifice everything to keep us safe” it is less than likely.
In the 60s, everyone under 35 was at risk of being drafted, the music industry went out of its way to write protest songs and encourage the anti-war sentiment, and psychedelic drug use was getting people to step outside their own egos and realize that we are all part of the same stuff so this bullshit of nationalism and warfare was completely wrongheaded – despite the BS coming out of their father’s mouths.
Just go to an anti-war rally/gathering and you will see that they are nothing more training centers for socialist organizers and others who hate freedom and liberty far more than they hate war. These are not principled folks who hate ALL war….just folks who hate wars perpetrated by “the other party.”
Great comment.
Simple: the Elite love Israel and hate Russia.