Has Trump Been Outmaneuvered on Syria Troop Withdrawal?
January 3, 2019
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Trump's possible backtracking on withdrawal from Syria means he may have
been once again outmaneuvered by the Deep State, says Virginia State Senator
Dick Black.
Following the outcry after President Donald Trump's announcement that he was
pulling U.S. troops from Syria, it appears that Trump may be succumbing to
political pressure. U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) visited the White
House on Dec. 30 and afterward told reporters: "We talked about Syria. He
told me some things I didn't know that made me feel a lot better about where
we're headed in Syria," Graham said. Trump's withdrawal plans are "slowing
down in a smart way," Graham said, according to NBC News.
The Washington Post added: " 'Graham described Trump's decision as 'a pause
situation' rather than a withdrawal, telling reporters, "I think the
president's taking this really seriously." Graham said: "He promised to
destroy ISIS. He's going to keep that promise. We're not there yet. But as I
said today, we're inside the 10-yard line, and the president understands the
need to finish the job."
By Senator Dick Black
Virginia State Senate, 13th District
The mainstream media refuses to acknowledge that the hardest fighting
against ISIS and al Qaeda has been done by Syria and its allies. Indeed, we
label Iran's fight against Syrian terrorists as "malign activity," ignoring
the fact that al Qaeda in Syria [al Nusra] is the progeny of the al Qaeda
force that highjacked jets and flew them into the Twin Towers and Pentagon,
killing 3,000 Americans on 9-11.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Seymour Hersh, wrote that a Defense
Intelligence Agency review of Syrian policy in 2013 revealed that
clandestine CIA Program Timber Sycamore, had degenerated into a program that
armed all terrorists indiscriminately, specifically including ISIS and al
Qaeda. I seriously doubt that this was merely a program failure. There is
strong evidence that the U.S. planned to overthrow Syria in 2001; the U.S.
Embassy in Damascus issued a detailed strategy to destabilize Syria in
2006-long before the so-called "Arab Spring;" and that our focus has
consistently been on toppling the duly elected, constitutional and
UN-recognized government of Syria.
It's sickening to hear these clowns repeatedly claim that "Assad murdered
500,000 of his people," as though the U.S.-backed terrorists have played no
role in the killings. I've viewed hundreds of beheadings and crucifixions
online but none committed by Syria troops-all were proudly posted by the
hellish filth that we've recruited, armed and trained for the past eight
years. Major war crimes, like beheading 250 Syrian soldiers after running
them across the desert in their underpants, were scarcely mentioned by the
MSM.
During a five-hour drive across liberated Syria this September, I spoke with
many people, from desert shepherds, to nuns and Muslim religious. There
were palpable expressions of joy that the Syrian armed forces had liberated
them from the terrorists. That was coupled with broad-based, unequivocal
support for President Bashar al Assad and the Syrian Armed Forces.
This disastrous war would never have occurred without American planning and
execution. And it would have ended years and hundreds of thousands of
casualties ago had we closed our training and logistics bases in Jordan,
Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar. The Syrian War had little to do with the
"Arab Spring" and much to do with clandestine actions of CIA, MI-6, Mossad,
Turkish MIT, French DGSE, Saudi GID and others, working with the savage
Syrian Muslim Brotherhood. We trained and recruited far more terrorists
than we killed, and we will encounter those survivors again, at other times
and places.
It is instructive that, despite President Donald Trump's strong directive on
a rapid Syrian pull-out, apparently not one soldier or Marine has departed
Syria. And the argument that they're tied up with fighting ISIS doesn't
hold water. On Syria's southern border, across from Jordan, lies the U.S.
base at al Tanf. ISIS is nowhere around. Al Tanf's sole purpose is to hold
and defend the sovereign territory of Syria (using a 55 km no-fly zone). It
denies Syria the right to restore order and provide aid to starving Syrians
trapped in the American zone.
Al Tanf is the canary in the Syrian coal mine. If Trump's pullout has any
credibility, the 800 or so troops and equipment assigned there could be
withdrawn across the Jordanian border within 24 hours. Their failure to do
so suggests duplicity by our foreign policy shadow government. The Pentagon
seems unresponsive to the Commander-in-Chief, and he has surrounded himself
with advisors whose allegiance does not lie with him-or with the American
people.
Republican Senator Richard H. Black represents the 13th district of
Virginia, encompassing parts of both Loudoun and Prince Williams Counties in
northern Virginia.