Trump & Pompeo doing good cop, bad cop game with Syria

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Where do our real threats lie?

Trump is willing to take military action in Syria again if needed – Pompeo

…from Russia Today, Moscow
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[ Editor’s Note: What we have now with Syria is a verbal twist on Obama’s old “All options are on the table” zinger. Trump and Pompeo keep punting the Syria ball back and forth, thinking that is a slick policy to keep everybody guessing as to what they are really going to do.
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Fortunately the experienced diplomats are not buying it, as the regional countries that want to re-establish ties with Syria are proceeding to do so, so far. If Erdogan thought he had a deal with Trump on the Kurds, he has learned “deals” only last maybe a day with him, until he changes his mind or someone convinces him to do something else. Think “child” mentality here.
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This new ploy of not leaving (the region) until ISIS is totally defeated is a straw dog, as ISIS may get beaten down but it can replace its losses with cannon fodder jihadis and Gulf money that will still be used as leverage if Assad will not be generous with how much of Syria he is willing to let them buy.
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The whole strategy of the Arabs coming in to buy up Syria is that the Saudis know the Iranians cannot compete there, as they have their own country to rebuild. So the Arabs want the fighting to end (for now) so Iran has no reason to keep advisors and Special Ops people there.
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At some point when the Arab group puts a $20 to $50 billion package (a promised one) on the table with Assad, they will say, “and the Iranians have to go”. Iran has already said they will leave any time at the Syrians request.
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As for the tweet below that Trump was only in Syria for ISIS, the Israelis would find that a joke, and may already be talking about holding up cue cards for Trump to keep him on point. Good luck with that … Jim W. Dean ] 

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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has stated that President Donald Trump is willing to take action again in Syria. This comes as the US prepares its troops for a withdrawal, which Pompeo says will go ahead despite criticism.
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Speaking in Cairo as part of a Middle East tour to reassure leaders that the US will maintain some sort of presence in the region, Pompeo declared that the US is still open to intervention in Syria, but he hoped that Trump “won’t have to.”

“When America retreats, chaos follows,” Pompeo said. “America will not retreat until the terror fight is over.”



Trump declared IS (Islamic State, formerly ISIS or ISIL) defeated and the US’ mission in Syria accomplished in December, and announced that the roughly 2,000 US troops there would be brought home.

Withdrawing from foreign conflicts was one of Trump’s key campaign promises, but the announcement nevertheless shocked much of the Washington establishment and media.

Donald J. Trump

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We have defeated ISIS in Syria, my only reason for being there during the Trump Presidency.

Even within the Trump administration, key officials sought to temper Trump’s announcement. National Security Adviser John Bolton said that the withdrawal would only occur after the US had drawn up a contingency plan with its allies in the region to protect Kurdish fighters in Syria from Turkish forces, and to contain Iranian influence in the war-stricken country.

Pompeo struck a similar tone on Thursday, declaring that the US will still carry out airstrikes in Syria as the need arises, and will not completely abandon the region until the “complete dismantling of the ISIS threat” is achieved.

Pompeo also promised continued airstrikes in Yemen, which has been pounded by US and Saudi strikes since 2015. He also declared that no foreign aid will be given to Syria until Iranian forces completely withdraw from the country.

Josie Ensor

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Pompeo, said with a straight face, in Cairo speech: “America has never dreamed of occupation in the Middle East. We will always be a liberating force, not an occupying one”

Originally slated to take between 60 and 100 days, Trump’s withdrawal from Syria could take slightly longer. Bolton said at the weekend that there was no set timetable for the pullout, noting that “the timetable flows from the policy decisions that we need to implement.”

Several thousand IS fighters still remain active in Syria. The terror group has lost 98 percent of the territory it held at the height of its power in 2014, however. Whereas the group once claimed large swathes of Iraq and Syria, it now controls just a small pocket of desert on the Iraqi/Syrian border.

Pompeo’s choice of Cairo to deliver his address to the Muslim world at large is a symbolic one. Former President Barack Obama also chose the Egyptian capital as the stage for his address to the region in 2009, when he took a more apologetic tone to Pompeo, apologizing for American intervention in the region and reaching out to the leaders of Iran for

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3 COMMENTS

  1. Like trying to pick up a turd on a clean end. It doesn’t exist except inside the Neo-ZioCon’s minds. They’re caught & instead of ‘popping smoke’ they continue the perfidious ignominious recreancy PNAC 2.0 Redux Brookings Inst. game ‘Which path to Persia’.

  2. Israel Lover Liars Trump, Bolton, Pompeo,…whores in Congress, whores in Military, etc., Supreme Court, all are traitors working for Israel, not the lowly citizens and taxpayers of the U.S. The stupid fools in the population are too preoccupied with getting the car washed or putting poison on the lawn to keep it green than preventing the traitors from holding the power of government. This country is gone with the wind. America is on auto pilot to oblivion from a financial meltdown because these fools think there is an endless supply of money without raising the taxes to pay for all this destruction.

  3. This Whole Fuking American Team of Trump , Pompeo , Bolton and the rest of the Psychopathic Murderers These are Nothing but ….. PNAC Reloaded on Steroids ……

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