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Wednesday, October 04, 2017

Ron Paul: "What Did Washington Achieve In Its Six Year War On Syria?"

Now that the defeat of ISIS in Syria appears imminent, with the Syrian army clearing out some of the last ISIS strongholds in the east,Washington’s interventionists are searching for new excuses to maintain the illegal US military presence in the country.

Their original rationale for intervention has long been exposed as another lie.

Remember that President Obama initially involved the US military in Iraq and Syria to “prevent genocide” of the Yazidis and promised the operation would not drift into US “boots on the ground.” That was three years ago and the US military became steadily more involved while Congress continued to dodge its Constitutional obligations. The US even built military bases in Syria despite having no permission to do so! Imagine if Syria started building military bases here in the US against our wishes.

After six years of war the Syrian government has nearly defeated ISIS and al-Qaeda and the US-backed “moderates” turned out to be either Islamist extremists or Kurdish soldiers for hire. According to a recent report, the US has shipped two billion dollars worth of weapons to fighters in Syria via eastern Europe. Much of these weapons ended up in the hands of ISIS directly, or indirectly through “moderates” taking their weapons with them while joining ISIS or al-Qaeda.

“Assad must go,” proclaimed President Obama back in 2011, as he claimed that the Syrian leader was committing genocide against his own people and that regime change was the only way to save Syrians. Then earlier this year, when eastern Aleppo was about to be liberated by the Syrian government, the neocons warned that Assad would move in and kill all the inhabitants. They warned that the population of eastern Aleppo would flee from the Syrian army. But something very different happened. According to the UN’s International Organization for Migration, 600,000 refugees returned to Syria by August. Half of the returnees went back to Aleppo, where we were told Assad was waiting to kill them.

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6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Well what have they achieved in 6 years that helps Americans,cant think of anything.

Anonymous said...

2:54 OIL

Anonymous said...

If you count making ISIS a household name and a world problem an accomplishment, then there you are! Nice work, Hillary and Barack.

Anonymous said...

507 i believe it was Bush who knocked out the major force that kept the groups flocking under the ISIS banner in check. After Saddam the region went straight to hell

Anonymous said...

430 and LOTS of it!

Anonymous said...

It is a very costly war for the tax payers, but the corporations represented by the US military have made and continue to make a fortune from this war. The industries who support the killing efforts make big profits from the sale of arms, supplies, oil, transportation, food, so on. It is a huge money maker for certain corporations.

Smedley Butler once said, War is a racket.

Quite evil.