Ahhh…...we invade a country and one of the conditions for ending this illegal occupation is that US companies want some of the oil? When did we become so disgusting in foreign affairs?
Our policies in Syria have been dead wrong. The president has reluctantly allowed the deep state/ neocon cabal , now headed by John Bolton, to keep pushing this incredibly wrong policy of illegal military occupation of a sovereign country.The president instinctively announced we were getting out of Syria two years ago but was sadly persuaded to remain to try to negotiate crap like this. Then the neo con / deep state colonialist tried two bogus “ chemical attacks” as excuse for attacking this sovereign county ( and as we say in the South , they are “fixing to” do it again in Idlib very soon). Trump was persuaded to take military action on the bogus “chemical” attacks but both reposes were purposely feckless , I think,on his orders. First ,we bombed a runway that was repaired in hours and in the second illegal attack we fired 107 cruise middles at two old empty buildings killing no one.. I think he ordered both weak responses to be weak.
We need to get the hell out of Syria and get John Bolton back on TV and out of foreign policy.
Sockmonkey, you are a Pro-Russian, anti-Trump troll.
And this is propaganda.
This is someone’s BS. The site, Syriana Analysis, is a buffer site for Syria and a political mouthpiece. As for our wanting their oil, we don’t need it and it will be of no advantage for us to buy it. We are already the largest importer and exporter of oil in the world, and the economics of using ourselves and our main contributors: Venezuela, Mexico and Canada are far more sound. We already are receiving only 3% of our oil from the middle east to try to keep them fed through the UN. This thread needs to go into the “86 file.” And if you think I’m wrong, ponder this: why would the only “news” blabber on earth to break this not be one of the ultra-liberal attack dogs in the US? They’d give up their left arm to run this. But they have said nothing. And it certainly isn’t because they feel a sudden overwhelming urge to patriotism when they never have before in their history.
rwood
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Akhbar_(Lebanon)
The author of this ridiculous hit piece also writes for the above pro-Hezbollah news organ.
You believe this crap?
You mean the Syrians don’t want an uninvited country dictating what happens on their sovereign land?
The US used to help people.
The demand about access to their oil fields is a move that the friggin’ mafia or some street gang would pull.
If this is true, it’s an embarrassment to any serviceman or woman.
War is a racket.
This fictionalization would be credible except for a demand for a cut of the oil.
A country in as weak as a position as we are in Syria, and, at the same time, breaking records in our own oil production, simply doesn’t need the little bit possible in Syria - especially given the politics on the ground there, regardless of the war outcome. Nice try though, I think it was a play at the of us who are convinced we only went after Assad for an oil pipeline, when the REAL PROBLEM that Hillary had with Assad was that he had successfully showed how a majority-Muslim country could be run in a way that ALL MINORITIES (including Christians) were respected and safe.
The other two items were actually an excellent summary of we could try to hope for there - we want to protect Israel by keeping Iran away and we still think we can distinguish between so-called ‘terrorists’ and ‘normal people’ from that part of the world, as if there’s any sharp dividing line.
Almost had me!
Kevork Almassian is a pro-Assad Syrian in Germany. He’s a member of the leftist Social Democratic Party of Germany, which organization is a member of the Party of European Socialists.
I thought we went to find obamas red lines and see if they had crossed any