US carries out airstrike against Iranian-backed militia in Syria

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  1. The Mello Guy

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    Hopefully Biden can do what trump kept saying he’d do.
     
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    Yep. We can see the left- and right-wing media unabashedly lying to our faces daily on domestic political issues. We know it. They know it. They know we know it, and they continue to lie anyway.

    Why should we believe what disinformation the CIA (probably) and Pentagon allows or instructs the media to tell us about foreign affairs?

    We need to stop dabbling in the affairs of other countries "in the name of spreading democracy". Innocent people end up dead at our hands, we create a mass diaspora of people fleeing places they loved to places they aren't welcome or don't want to be, and "democracy" doesn't happen according to the "rules" we westerners try to impose on other peoples' lives.
     
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    So.....how did Hillary winning in a landslide work out for you?
     
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    Seth Bullock Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    A great many right wingers want us to get out of Syria and Iraq. Not all conservatives are warhawks - quite the opposite. If we weren't there, this retaliatory strike wouldn't be necessary.

    I'm not against striking back at an attack on our troops. You have no idea how much I respect those young people who serve. But I don't want them in Syria or Iraq. If it were up to me - a conservative - I'd withdraw them all from those countries.
     
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    Trump already defeated ISIS, took out the Iranians top Terrorist, and reduced Troop count. You need to pay attention and quit supporting a War Monger like China Joe Biden.
     
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    Yes...and get all USA Troops out of where they have no place other than to support treatied allies under the terms of the relevant treaty. I exclude the State of Israel from the term 'treatied allies.' (I have nothing against the State of Israel other than where it is, geographically.)
     
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    When some article says " our intelligence agency said something" or some pundit representing the Pentagon - and the subject is a foreign conflict region .. good chance the narrative is false ..
     
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    Giftedone Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    And what is that Prey Tell - don't keep us in suspense ?!
     
  10. The Mello Guy

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    Yet said twice we’d leave then never did. ISIS was never the only game in town.
     
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    Get out of Syria
     
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    Giftedone Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Oh what a load of spoon fed propaganda .. Was Russia/Iran/Syria that defeated the Islamic State .. a State that that the US had been arming and supporting for 5 full years prior - along with a host of other nations -

    Then - we turned on our allies - and took out their last stronghold in Raqqa - with the help of the Kurds.

    You are right about the Biden being a war monger part though .. Him and bamalama being the ring leaders of the Syrian Circus .. one with numerous crimes of war - and crimes against humanity.. as popular events.

    Then they took out the fellow that had been fighting against the Islamic State for those long years when we were supporting them ... was that not included in the propaganda narrative you were fed ? That Soleimani .. rather than being this "Top terrorist" .. was in fact a Top Terrorist Killer .. fighting against the 911 terrorist group Al Qaeda .. as opposed to arming and supporting them .. like Obamalama...
     
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    That would be lovely - and Iraq too - but seems that is the only playground left - to justify that 1.2 Trillion dollar annual Total Military Spend ..

    ahhh .but who cares .. nothing out of the 8 Trillion in deficit spending we done over last year and so far this year..
     
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    That's the thing with a retaliation strike... it's dependent on when the other guy acts...

    Come ping us when Biden strikes first somewhere...
     
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    Well, welcome to 2021. Having to refresh my memories on Shia's and Sunni's again, and trying to figure out who the western "polite" society determines are the "good" Muslims. When those sects get involved in civil wars they call each other terrorists, so when we interfere to "pick a winner" by arming one terrorist group and weaken the other terrorist group, it can get confusing.

    It just looks like another proxy war with Russia, which has been busy bombing and killing "terrorists" in Syria recently as well. The "terrorists" we kill and the "terrorists" Russia kills tend to kill each other, right? I mean, if the "democracy loving" West and Russia just stayed out of the way?

    HEADLINE: Russian air assault kills 21 Islamic State jihadists in Syria: Monitor

    https://economictimes.indiatimes.co...ofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst

    What will be the consequences? I'm sure that guy Biden knows with absolute certainty...

    Wait. Isn't the news that Biden called to bomb Iranian-backed militants almost immediately after John Kerry struck up "Iran Deal" talks after a four-year break?

    I'm sure he's trying to bring "unity" to the entire world.

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    I sure hope Biden got congress's approval first? We all remember how Obama wimped out on his red line threat with Syria saying he needed congess's approval first.
     
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    Psaki can just delete the last sentence of her April 2017 Tweet, and then "We're all good."

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    It is a waste of ordnance. We have no business messing with Syria at all. Not even a little. Let Syria deal with its problems.
     
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    I support the retaliatory attack as well. I assume that the target was the location of the rocket assault on Erbil.

    I think Trump's approval to hit Soleimani was absolutely the right thing to do. Pretty brazen act to visit Baghdad during an attack on the US Embassy. He was already on notice that the US had more or less issued a wanted dead or alive on him.

    I don't see that this action is any sort of evidence on this administration's policy toward Iran. It seems that it simply authorized a response under what likely remain the same ROE revised under the Trump administration that seem to have helped bring an end to the DASH/ISIS occupation of Iraq. Complicated stuff to know to what extent Trump policy changes contributed to an effort that seemed to be nearing conclusion against DASH as he assumed office. Some of the refugee camp stuff going on is disturbing. Literally camps that are raising future jihadists from some accounts I've seen.

    I don't support the fact though that we are there to begin with. There was no Iraq connection to 911 and there were no WMDs.

    I don't support that we've not followed through to rebuild the country. As Colin Powell said, you break it, you fix it. I can't even imagine his level of regret for caving in and doing the dirty deed he did at the UN for the Neocons. I'd have a greater respect if he had refused and made Bush fire him. I don't support these folks in such positions resigning, going quietly to that good night golf course....

    What is Biden's plan for Iran? Isn't there some type of ephemeral suggestion that he intends to renegotiate / reestablish the treaty agreement that Kerry made with them?
     
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    I expect that Biden will be air mailing palettes of cash to Iran soon, on advice of John Kerry.

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    https://www.realclearpolitics.com/2021/02/23/john_kerry_never_got_out_of_bed_with_iran_536724.html#!


    People are talking about Kerry and Iran "negotiating" throughout the Trump administration.


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    Another Democrat, and back to unrest in the middle east. Who'd have guess that :)

    Fire up the drones, Drone'n Joe son of Obamanator will get them folks in line..
     
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    The DNC fancy their grampa King, he needs no permission...
     
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    I have no issue with Biden hitting a target in retaliation to a US contractor getting killed from these A-holes. Granted, I think all Americans should be out of that $hithole area so we do not get out own killed there.

    And I surely hope Biden doesn't ramp up more troop deployment and follow an Obama or Bush foreign policy in the Middle East as that will only create another $hit show and get us into another war!
     
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    Dictators like Assad are only bad if they want an oil/gas pipeline and we don't want them to have one. Wanting a pipeline makes them "undemocratic and brutal" and they must be overthrown.

    Assad wants Iraq-Iran-Syria pipeline to Europe.
    U.S. wants Qatar-Turkey pipeline to Europe.

    So Qatar and Turkey authoritarian leaders are "good" and Assad is "bad" (according to us).

    Americans get "sold" these sappy emotional humanitarian themes, when everything is always about the power of oil and profit.

    https://greekcitytimes.com/2021/02/20/iran-iraq-syria-friendship-pipeline/
     
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    The more things change, the more they remain the same.

    Both Trump & Biden strongly support Israel and its expansion into Greater Israel.

    It's a good thing that US troops will die for Israel, as men like you support it. Yes, we have the government we deserve.
     
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