RE: Donald Trump Is Pulling Out Of Syria
December 21, 2018 at 10:26 am
(This post was last modified: December 21, 2018 at 10:30 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(December 21, 2018 at 2:36 am)Maketakunai Wrote:(December 21, 2018 at 12:29 am)Gae Bolga Wrote: We don't need syria. Syria needed us...and we failed.
You are aware that the the Obama administration was supplying "rebels" in Syria with weapons from Croatia to take out Assad, right? That all came out in 2015. Trump stopped funding the "rebels" in 2017 and about 8 months later declared ISIS was no longer a threat in Syria. Who do you think those "rebels " are exactly?
Obama had the CIA funding and training the Free Syrian Army to overthrow the Syrian government since around 2011. As it turns out, the FSA collaborates quite a bit with Al Qaeda. By 2017 intelligence was reporting that FSA was primarily Al Qaeda. Let's backtrack - From 2011 to 2014 Al Qaeda supported ISIS openly. Even though they broke ties formally, they still support each other when it's convenient. Right now there are so many groups in Syria that it's really just not worth the effort to try to keep track of them all. We can't treat them all like allies, and we can't treat them all like enemies. Here's a map from May, 2018 that shows what I mean.
The only thing anyone knows for sure is that without money from America, ISIS control has been reduced to holding a miniscule portion of the country. That only took about 8 months after President Trump cut off the flow of arms and equipment. And, like I wrote earlier, as long as we can get carriers into the Mediterranean we really don't need to put American lives at risk for this cluster-fuck.
Russian barrel bombs and chemical weapons have more to do with ISIS current predicament than scrotus does, lol. You're not talking to a person who has problems with arming and training rebels, with me. Personally, I think the failure to follow up directly on our red line back in the day was one of the worst mistakes of the obama presidency.
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