Fury in Washington as Trump Announces Withdrawal from Syria

Time for another false flag chemical weapons attack?

I have been calling for Trump to pull out of Syria since he won the election to be President. His delay had me questioning his strength - whether he could stand up to Deep State and do the right thing. Of course it isn't done yet, we can expect, any minute now, another chemical attack that will be blamed on Assad. It will be a desperate attempt by NATO, MI6, and who knows how many other Deep State facilitators, to take control back from Trump. He must not allow that to happen. The war in Syria must end and it cannot when US forces are there.

US troops on patrol with Turkish forces near Manbij, Syria, November 1, 2018.

©  US Army / Arnada Jones (via Reuters)

President Donald Trump’s decision to declare ISIS defeated and order a full US withdrawal from Syria has been met with anger and disbelief by the Washington establishment that hoped for regime change in Damascus.

Trump declared victory over Islamic State on Wednesday morning, as media reported that some 2,000 or so US troops will leave Syria within 60 to 100 days. Though Trump had openly spoken about wanting to leave Syria back in March, senior officials in his administration (read Deep State) have said that US forces would stay there indefinitely.

CNN’s Jake Tapper reacted to the announcement by quoting an anonymous Pentagon official who saw it as a victory for Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Jake Tapper✔
@jaketapper
 Responding to this, a Pentagon official asks me: “so when does Russia announce their victory?”

Donald J. Trump✔
@realDonaldTrump
We have defeated ISIS in Syria, my only reason for being there during the Trump Presidency.

Seriously, Jake - do you think Putin is that petty?

Hillary Clinton’s former foreign policy adviser Jesse Lehrich bemoaned that the withdrawal would embolden Syrian President Bashar Assad and strengthen Russia and Iran, while leaving the US-allied Kurdish militias “once again hung out to dry.”

Jesse Lehrich✔
@JesseLehrich
 there are no easy answers in Syria & getting troops home is a worthy goal, but...

1) this is a lie — the Pentagon says so.

2) abrupt withdrawal will not only breathe new life into ISIS, but also amounts to a dangerous abandonment of our allies & strategic goals in the region.

The American troops actually did comparatively little in eliminating ISIS from Syria. Their focus was confused by also trying to defeat Assad which sometimes resulted in their assisting militias that were ISIS-friendly, or even worse than ISIS.

The end of ISIS was not in sight until the Russians entered the war. If ISIS regains strength, the Russians will assist the Syrian Army in routing them again.

It seems obvious, also, that Israel can take care of Iran's interest in Syria. They've been doing that for years.

Senator Marco Rubio (R-Florida), known as a foreign policy hawk, also disagreed with a withdrawal, calling it a “colossal” mistake and a “grave error that's going to have significant repercussions in the years and months to come.”

Rubio echoed Lehrich’s assessment that the US withdrawal would turn Syria over to Russia and Iran, adding that it might lead to another conflict between Israel and the Iranian-backed Hezbollah, and lend strength to the (hypothetical) argument by Russia and China that Washington is an “unreliable ally.”

NBC News✔
@NBCNews

Sen. Rubio: "The decision to withdraw an American presence in Syria is a colossal, in my mind, mistake -- a grave error that's going to have significant repercussions in the years and months to come." https://nbcnews.to/2UW5uh6 

Another foreign policy hawk, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) said the pullout would be “a huge Obama-like mistake,” enabling the revival of IS and putting the Kurds at risk.

Lindsey Graham✔
@LindseyGrahamSC
 Withdrawal of this small American force in Syria would be a huge Obama-like mistake.

With all due respect, ISIS is not defeated in Syria, Iraq, and after just returning from visiting there -- certainly not Afghanistan.

Are you suggesting the US send more troops into Afghanistan?

The Atlantic Council’s resident Syria expert, Faysal Itani, was likewise glum in his predictions.

“I expect ISIS will be back in some form within a year, and expelling Iran from Syria will not be achieved if the US is not in Syria at all,” he told the UAE-based The National, adding that a more likely outcome would be “a possible military confrontation between Turkey and the Kurds, at least in the border area, if Russia allows that.”

The Washington Post’s foreign policy editor Jackson Diehl wondered how Trump’s national security adviser John Bolton felt about the withdrawal, given his recent statements about the US staying in Syria as long as any Iranian-backed forces were there, meaning indefinitely.

Jackson Diehl✔

@JacksonDiehl
 I wonder how John Bolton is feeling this morning. It's been less than three months since he announced the US would not leave Syria unless and until Iran did.  https://wapo.st/2Q2fjqj?tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.33feb60c46eb …

Critics of the US involvement in Syria, however, cheered on the news of the withdrawal, pointing out that the real mistake was Washington getting involved in the attempt to overthrow the government in Damascus in the first place.

Daniel McAdams
@DanielLMcAdams
 Um...Lindsey? Take your meds. Obama is the moron who got us INTO Syria. So getting us OUT of Syria would by definition NOT be an "Obama-like" mistake.

Elijah J. Magnier
@ejmalrai
 If the #US pull out all its forces from the north-east of #Syria, and I mean ALL, this is time to celebrate for all Syrians and declare the day of the last US soldier withdrawal THE independence day.

It makes no sense, in a sane world, why Europeans aren't fighting tooth and nail for peace in Syria. It would, in no small way, reverse the migrant flow as thousands of people would happily return to Syria. Why the EU doesn't seem to want that is a big problem for someone trying to figure out how the world works. But then, peace doesn't sell weapons.

According to Wikipedia, there are 776 modern armament manufacturers in the world. 143 of them are in America! The next largest maker of weapons is Turkey with 52 facilities. Russia has only 20 listed, although I suspect there may be more military facilities that are not counted. Nevertheless, that is less than either Italy or Canada. So, who benefits from the wars and fears of wars promulgated by NATO and other Deep State entities?