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Trump: Mission accomplished — all US troops to immediately withdraw from Syria

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“We have defeated ISIS in Syria, my only reason for being there during the Trump Presidency,” he said in a tweet. U.S. President Donald Trump has announced that all American troops currently in Syria will be withdrawn. There are currently around 2,000 U.S. troops inside Syria fighting ISIS alongside the Kurds and Syrian rebels.

“We’ve been fighting for a long time in Syria … And we have won, against ISIS. We’ve beaten them, and we’ve beaten them badly. We’ve taken back the land, and it’s time for our troops to come back home,” said President Trump, in a recorded address. He continued by citing that the cost to the nation’s warfighters and their families has been great. “I get very saddened when I have to write letters or call parents, or wives, or husbands of soldiers who have been killed fighting for our country … There’s no question about it: it’s heart-breaking. Now, we’ve won. It’s time to come back. They’re getting ready, you’re going to see them soon,” he added.

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  • Andy T

    The smart and logical next step, I already wrote – I wonder how many people reading even know what Sykes-Picot is and what it means and how it all happened. Millenial journalists and academics are very, very poor in history. The logical next step that makes the most sense is to scrap the almost exactly 100 year old Sykes-Picot borders and with NATO (meaning the USA) leading the way – negotiate new borders for Syria with Russia that will finally give the Kurds what they want, and have fought for with USA help for so long. Their own sovereign country. The idea that Trump is somehow a Russian agent (watch Rachel Maddow’s show – holy shit – insanity) is foolish. Syria has been a Russian outpost since before the Bolshevik revolution. Let them have as much as the pile of rubble as they want to keep their Assad puppet in place and sliver of coastline on the Mediterranean sea, but carve up the region in a way that makes sense culturally and socially for the people that actually want to live there. Sykes-Picot French, UK, and Russian decision making a century ago for the region hasn’t turned out very well.

  • Andy T

    mattis, and his conventional military approach, based on media reporting, was essentially the major obstacle in the big board room when it came to what Prince has been pitching for a couple years now.

  • Greg W

    Indeed.

  • Andy T

    With Trump as president for at least another 2 years, anything is in play dude. With regards to Afghanistan, Erik Prince may just get his 21st century version of the Dutch East India Trading company after all.

  • Greg W

    Good. Just as we could have and should have done in Afghanistan “back in the day”.
    And never should have done in Iraq as we now know.
    The “Grand Game” continues.