How is that War on Terror in Syria Going?

Trump said through his mouthpiece Mattis that US troops would not be leaving Syria until ISIS was defeated. It's kind of hard to defeat them when you and your allies continue to arm and fund them. Isn't it? Look at the shiny new Toyota trucks ISIS has. And their weapons.

ISIS took several US & European citizens hostage in US-controlled part of Syria

The 700 hostages captured in Syria by Islamic State terrorists include US and European citizens and are being killed off 10 people a day, Russia’a Vladimir Putin said, criticizing American forces for “catastrophic” failure.

Islamic State terrorists “have delivered ultimatums and made certain demands, threatening … to shoot ten people every day,” the Russian leader said, adding that the hostage-takers already started carrying out their threats and executed ten hostages two days ago.

“Some US and European citizens are among the hostages,” the president warned, adding that “everyone is silent … as if nothing has happened.”

“They [the US] have clearly fallen short of their target,” Putin said, adding that Washington and its allies apparently failed to combat terrorists in the part of Syria they occupy. Islamic State terrorists continue to expand their presence in the area, he said.

McConnell is saying that our Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are driving up the deficit and needs to be cut. I'm thinking that if congress stopped funding terrorists and countries that are committing human rights abuses there would be plenty of money for them. But maybe that's just me. What say you?.

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snoopydawg's picture

I thought that the Kurds were our allies and were helping us defeat ISIS? Or does that depend on what day it is? ISIS' air force strikes again.

6 killed as US-led coalition F-15 jets bomb Kurdish forces fighting ISIS

Two US-led coalition aircraft have bombed Syrian Kurdish forces, disrupting their offensive on Islamic State terrorists, RIA news agency reports. The diplomatic source has called out US’ “lack of coordination and professionalism.

Two US-led coalition’s F-15 fighter jets have mistakenly targeted Kurdish units amid their offensive on the remaining forces of Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) terrorists in Syria, RIA reported, citing a “military and diplomatic source.” It said six people were killed and 15 injured on the Kurdish side.
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These facts demonstrate that the US policy in Syria has failed just as in the neighboring Iraq, as it does not solve any problems but only creates the new one for the whole region,”

Hey. What's happening in Afghanistan, the longest war that the US has ever fought? You would think that the media would be giving us some updates now and then.

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dervish's picture

nor any behavior too degrading for these fucksticks to engage in to turn a profit.

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"Obama promised transparency, but Assange is the one who brought it."

Lookout's picture

The way you propagate a forever war is to arm both sides of the conflict. Then you train white helmets to bring confusion and mayhem into the story.

From my view this has always been about delivering natural gas to Europe....and preventing Russia from doing so. That is the craziest part of it all...wars to pump poison into our atmosphere in order to seek extinction.

Thanks for breaking through the media silence surrounding Syria.

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“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”

EdMass's picture

I am not disputing what you report. But I have to ask. Assad says he's fighting terrorists. Yes, he's probably killed at least as many of his own people as the "terrorists" have. But they're still there. And he's still going.

So "they" continue to kill our "allies" and we back down to Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Russia, for what? Who oppresses and is scared of Kurds? Iraq and Turkey and Syria will get to them after awhile.

How long you think Idlib lasts after they attempt to put in place a DMZ? Buying time to plan the slaughter. Assad won't give up that territory for very long.

We should have left all these people in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan more than a decade ago and let them slaughter each other for as long as they want. Just look at Pakistan, rife with terrorism and their "perfect" blasphemy laws where non-muslims (and Shiites) are terrorized, assassinated or jailed.

If I wanted to live in the 10th century, I would live in the 10th century.

Seems large portions of the globe got stuck there.

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@EdMass

But I have to ask. Assad says he's fighting terrorists. Yes, he's probably killed at least as many of his own people as the "terrorists" have. But they're still there. And he's still going.

I'm not sure what you're saying here. Do you think that Assad hasn't been fighting the terrorists that were paid to go into Syria? If so, Russia and Syria have taken back lots of territory from them and there are just a few places left where they are holed up. Russia and Syria were going to kick them out a few months ago, but FUKUS told them not to. This is back when the White Helmets were planning a false flag chemical attack and Trump was threatening to bomb them because he'd blame it on Assad.

So "they" continue to kill our "allies" and we back down to Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Russia, for what? Who oppresses and is scared of Kurds?

We didn't back down. See above. And we should have never gone into those countries.

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@snoopydawg

Is that Assad has always said he is fighting terrorists while in fact he started out trying to repress his own people which got out of his control. A convenient two-serving purpose.

I beg to differ on the Kurds. We screwed them and denied them all the support they needed ( and their right to an autonomous homeland spanning Turkey/Iraq/Syria - which they will eventually take for themselves imo) because of Turkey and Iraq opposition to same. I call that backing down.

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@EdMass

If I wanted to live in the 10th century, I would live in the 10th century. … Seems large portions of the globe got stuck there.

Oddly enough, Iraq and Syria were two countries where this wasn't true until the US decided to regime change them.

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@edg

Iraq under Saddam and his boys and Syria under Daddy/Son Assad were models of Western Democracies and secular philosophies? All was fine before all this crap happened?

And no, we never should have gone there in the first place.

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@EdMass

You're moving the goalposts as usual because your claims don't stand up under scrutiny. Your claim was that these were 10th century backwaters. Suddenly, though, when I called you on it, the standard became "models of Western Democracies and secular philosophies". WTF, dude? If you can't support your comments with facts and logic, don't make them.

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@edg

Because people get upset if you name things directly.

What culture, religion, oppression of it's own people (love that Hijab babe..) around the globe mostly centered in the mid and far East is mired in the 10th century. Sharia anyone?

Goalposts indeed.

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@EdMass

How about waking up to the fact that Iraq, Syria and Lebanon were secular, relatively modern, and fairly stable before Israel and it's puppet, the United States, started regime changing them?

You're welcome to point the finger at terrorist Islamic monarchies like Saudi Arabia if you wish, but don't ignore the criminal acts we and our Israeli buddies perpetrated on countries in the Middle East that did embrace modernity or did renounce terrorism and extremism (Libya being a prime example).

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