US Foreign Policy - Syria Version

[Berzerker]

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That was the House vote to keep sanctions on Syria after the northern part of the country was hit by powerful quakes.

321-103

That was the House vote to keep US troops in Syria squatting on Syria's oil and wheat

Before these votes the US spent several years flooding the country with weapons to help terrorists take half the country.

[My Wife Hates CIV]

dems voted for defund the police. your point?

[Broken_Erika]

Once apon a time there was a "Moderate Syrian Rebel Faction". Syria and their Russian allies focused all their military power against it while ignoring Islamic State, allowing IS and other radical groups to destroy the "Moderate Rebels".

[My Wife Hates CIV]

Once apon a time US presidents were real leaders. your point?

[Broken_Erika]

Once apon a time US presidents were real leaders. your point?

My point is moast pointy.
I'd poast a funny picture but "Pointy Point" produces crappy pictures on google image search.

[Berzerker]

Once apon a time there was a "Moderate Syrian Rebel Faction". Syria and their Russian allies focused all their military power against it while ignoring Islamic State, allowing IS and other radical groups to destroy the "Moderate Rebels".

https://youtu.be/bMKy0_RE9HM

Ah yes, Obama's "moderate rebels"

ISIS took half the country and millions of people fled

"Most tellingly, the document noted that the weapons shipments were halted “in early September 2012.” This was a clear reference to the killing by militants that month of four Americans–Ambassador Christopher Stevens, another State Department official, and two CIA contractors–in Benghazi, the port city where the weapons to Syria were coming from. The Benghazi annex “was at its heart a CIA operation,” U.S. officials told the Wall Street Journal. At least two dozen CIA employees worked in Benghazi under diplomatic cover."

"Although top intelligence officials obscured the Benghazi operation in sworn testimony before the House Intelligence Committee, a Senate investigation eventually confirmed a direct CIA role in the movement of weapons from Libya to Syria. A classified version of a 2014 Senate report, not publicly released, documented an agreement between President Obama and Turkey to funnel weapons from Libya to insurgents in Syria. The operation, established in early 2012, was run by then-CIA Director David Petraeus."

"Although the Obama administration claimed that the weapons funneled to Syria were intended for “moderate rebels,” they ultimately ended up in the hands of a jihadi-dominated insurgency. Just one month after the Benghazi attack, the New York Times reported that “hard-line Islamic jihadists,” including groups “with ties or affiliations with Al Qaeda,” have received “the lion’s share of the arms shipped to the Syrian opposition.”

No sh!t

"One month before the Benghazi attack, Pentagon intelligence analysts gave the White House a blunt appraisal. An August 2012 Defense Intelligence Agency report, disseminated widely among U.S. officials, noted that “Salafi[s], the Muslim Brotherhood, and AQI [Al Qaeda in Iraq] are the major forces driving the insurgency.” Al Qaeda, the report stressed, “supported the Syrian opposition from the beginning.”

Thats about when Jake Sullivan told Hillary Al Qaeda was on our side in Syria

https://mronline.org/2022/04/23/al-q...s-on-our-side/

[Broken_Erika]

I am not even going to dignify that with a proper response.
If yo want to blame abyone for Libya, it's mainly Sarkozy and Berlusconi.........

[BeBMan]

Fun is, there would certainly be plenty of things people could moan about when it comes to "western"/US/Euro/whatever foreign policy. But don't expect a debate if you're just stringing random, one-sided nonsense/accusations together ...

Beyond that this thread needs more mention of CNN, non-conservative neocons, Manifest Destiny and IS. And much more emotive hyperbole for sure

[Bereta_Eder]

US has killed lots of people

isn't hatrd bebro?

your western "democracy"friends have killed lots of people and are responsible for so ,much suffering


that's why military service should be mandatory for everyone as the ancients

said

because as you arew there agaisnt the enemy at 4 at mnight and yo u know that one wrong step can make all the difference

you kind of feel what is important

Iwas returening fro abroad in the bus

was a guy with a sign in his jacket fck isis

and i said who is that guy? he will get us all killed


only greece

demcoracy socialism

left wing, armed