Indeed, the Israeli paper Haaretz proclaimed that " Netanyahu's Iran Policy Has Collapsed" (his policy to "to bring down the Iranian regime," that is) because of Trump's decisions not to attack Iran and to withdraw from Syria, which "are warning signs to Israel, that it cannot count on Netanyahu's friend in the White House." In other words, from the perspective of Zionist warmongering, as another Israeli journalist says, "Trump has become unreliable for Israel."
I say again: Before his Syrian withdrawal decision Trump forewent three golden opportunities to attack Iran, including one in which he actually cancelled the military strike he had ordered with "10 minutes to go," "flabbergasting" and outraging his closest advisers and key Republican allies. There has not been a presidential decision more radically anti-interventionist and more blatantly in defiance of imperialist doctrine since JFK refused to provide air support at the Bay of Pigs. Look where that got him.
And I'll say again: This, and only this, is why Trump is more vulnerable to impeachment than parsing Ukrainegate and counting Republican senators might lead one to believe. There are now powerful, permanent-state, supra-partisan lobbies and interests who find him unacceptably unreliable, and who can change votes with a snap. Wasn't it amazing how Ambassador Sondland suddenly revised his testimony? Watch what John Bolton does when his turn comes, which it will. He's the bellwether. He's got the knife.
So the neocon Borg went to work on Trump over Syria, led by James Jeffrey-the other John Bolton, who has worked in the Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations, but has stayed in the shadows and stays on as Special Representative for Syria Engagement. Jeffery, who has "floated the idea of a counter-Iran presence in Deir ez-Zor for some time now" and has promised that "we will not leave Syria before we kick Iran out of Syria,," managed, with his colleagues, to "un-collapse" the US-Israel policy as much as possible, using Trump's childish ignorance to "sneak in a long-term U.S. military presence in southeast Syria."
Thus, to be sure, Donald Trump's "decision" to withdraw US troops from Syria turned out not to do that at all.
The war in Syria continues; we cannot say it has ended until and unless every US soldier and piece of military hardware leave Syria. The residual military presence that the neocons have persuaded Trump to keep in Syria continues to deny the Syria government full control of its own sovereign territory and maintains redoubts from which the rump US and proxy forces threaten the Syrian government-economically for certain, and potentially militarily.
And the war in which Syria is embedded-the ongoing state-destroying war across the Middle East, aimed ultimately at Iran-certainly continues, with Donald Trump enabling it, however fitfully. Any US forces that remain in Syria are also there to act forcefully in the region-wide military conflict that will erupt if and when the decision to pull the trigger on a military strike on Iran comes.
But Trump's sudden rearrangement of US forces in Syria has weakened the US position in that country, both militarily and politically, which is why it was so hated by staunch imperialists and Zionists-i.e., nearly every major US politician and news media personality.
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