James Bovard, USA Today: Donald Trump is reckless on Syria. It's his most dangerous foreign policy folly.
Trump said Obama's 'horrendous leadership' on Syria could start World War III. He's made things even worse.
Last year on the campaign trail, crowds roared when Donald Trump denounced his opponent as "trigger-happy" Hillary. But President Trump is rapidly incarnating the vice he condemned. Nowhere is this more evident than in Syria, where Trump’s recklessness risks dragging America into a major war.
U.S. policy toward Syria has been a tangle of absurdities since 2012. President Obama promised 16 times that he would never put U.S. "boots on the ground" in the four-sided Syrian civil war. He quietly abandoned that pledge and, starting in 2014, launched more more than 5,000 airstrikes that dropped more than 15,000 bombs on terrorist groups in Syria.
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Commentaries On Concerns That President Trump Will Drag The U.S. Into A Major Middle Eastern War
Trump Is Tripping Over Iran and Russia's Red Lines in Syria -- Jonathan Spyer, Foreign Policy
Critics Say US Is 'Sleepwalking' Into Wider Role in Syria -- Helene Cooper, New York Times
US risks being dragged into regional war with Iran in Syria -- Barbara Starr, CNN
The Iran-US Drone War in Syria Could Quickly Spin Out of Control -- Juan Cole, The Nation
Is the Middle East on the brink of another war? -- Charis Chang, NEWS.com.au
Are We in a Syrian Missile Crisis? -- Carl Skutsch, Rolling Stone
What Is the United States Doing in Syria These Days? -- Jen Kirby, NYMag
What's Trump's Syria Plan Once ISIS Is Defeated? -- Frederic C. Hof, Newsweek
The geopolitics behind race for eastern Syria -- Mona Alami, Al-Monitor
Al-Monitor
Powers compete for position in post-ISIS Syria -- Charles Krauthammer, Philly.com
5 comments:
Trump is going to meet the Indian PM.
So far there ahs been a Leftist media OMG!, WW3 might happen.!
If Trump would have met the PM in February through April that would have been there.
Tthe Left while strident, snow flakish, and stupid is running out of a little steam.
"U.S. policy toward Syria has been a tangle of absurdities since 2012. President Obama promised 16 times that he would never put U.S. "boots on the ground" in the four-sided Syrian civil war. He quietly abandoned that pledge and, starting in 2014, launched more more than 5,000 airstrikes that dropped more than 15,000 bombs on terrorist groups in Syria." - James Bovard, USA Today
Laughing my OSSOF!
"In the Sunday edition of Die Welt, Hersh reports that his national security sources offered a distinctly different account, revealing President Trump rashly deciding to launch 59 Tomahawk missiles against a Syrian airbase on April 6 despite the absence of intelligence supporting his conclusion that the Syrian military was guilty.
Hersh draws on the kind of inside sources from whom he has earned longstanding trust to dispute that there ever was a “chemical weapons attack” and to assert that Trump was told that no evidence existed against the Syrian government but ordered “his generals” to “retaliate” anyway.
Marine General Joseph Dunford, Chairman of the, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and former Marine General, now Defense Secretary James “Mad-Dog” Mattis ordered the attacks apparently knowing that the reason given was what one of Hersh’s sources called a “fairy tale.”
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/06/26/hershs-big-scoop-bad-intel-behind-trumps-syria-attack/
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https://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/article165905578/Trump-s-Red-Line.html
https://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/article165905618/We-got-a-fuckin-problem.html
https://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/article165906452/The-Fog-of-War.html
https://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/article165906278/Islamic-States-Horror-Arsenal.html
Hillary on the day of the airstrikes said she would have attacked every Syrian airbase.
"Hillary on the day of the airstrikes said she would have attacked every Syrian airbase. " Steven Krische
“take out his airfields.”
- Hillary at the womyn's conference
"I really believe that we should have — and still should — take out his airfields and prevent him from being able to use them to bomb innocent people and drop sarin gas on them." - Grand Marshall General Hillary
Jay what rube!
Laughing my OSSOF!
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