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US Policy to Control Iraq-Syria Border Is Doomed to Failure

Rasa - Senator Tim Kaine says “recent US strikes inside Syria against the Syrian government and its Iranian allies are unlawful.”

News ID: 430605

Date: 26 June 2017 - 23:58

RNA - Kaine notes that US military operation is only authorized action against the perpetrators of 9/11, and that “nobody claims that Syria was a perpetrator. Nobody claims that they are connected to Al-Qaeda. In fact, they’re battling against Al-Qaeda in Syria.”

Tell that to the Pentagon regime which still claims that recent attack on a Syrian Su-22 bomber was “collective self-defense” intended to protect terror proxies from Syria’s military. This is well beyond the scope of the supposed US mission in Syria, which is to fight against ISIL, as was a previous flurry of Tomahawk missiles fired at a Syrian Air Force base a few months prior.

This comes as the whole US operation in eastern Syria is illegal under International Law, for it has neither a UN mandate nor an invitation from the Syrian government. With its escalation of the undeclared war on Syria’s allies, the Trump administration risks a direct military confrontation with Iran and Russia as well.

It doesn’t take a strategic mind to realize that by scrambling to take over territory abandoned by ISIL in the region the US cannot get what it couldn’t during the failed regime-change campaign. The allied forces of Iran, Syria, Russia and Hezbollah now control much of western Syria and are moving to reclaim the remaining ISIL areas in the east. Soon they will be joined by the Iraqi forces that are also fast moving toward the border. This is not for de facto partition or trying to establish a sphere of influence. This is for full spectrum liberation of Iraq and Syria.

War-party Washington’s actions run counter to this officially recognized campaign. They have no intention to get along with Iran and Russia or stop engaging in regime change. The US is occupying Syrian territory and is determined to shoot anyone that tries to get its troops out. With no indication how long they will remain, it is clear that the US wants to permanently partition Syria and make reaching a post-ISIL political settlement all the more difficult.

Washington has its own reasons for prolonging the war on Syria and curtailing Iranian influence, but it’s also pleasing its Israeli and Saudi partners in crime. To this end, the United States and its terror proxies are desperate to build a zone of control along the Iraqi-Syrian border. They seek to stop the allied forces from rolling up ISIL.

The problem is, the allied forces of Iran, Syria, Russia and Hezbollah have won the war. They only need time to mop up the remaining terrorist groups. The US is in the know. That’s why it tangles over the shape of postwar Syria and Iraq. The US is desperate to block Iran from overland access to Syria, and Tehran is pushing back with sophisticated weapons systems, including precision-striking missiles and drones.

Even the international community is also unhappy about the prospect of a permanent US-terror proxy zone of control in eastern Syria, even if the initial stage of its establishment involves the defeat of ISIL. This conflict over the east is leading in dangerous directions and if something bad happens, the blaming fingers will be all pointed at the United States. More so, Russia has also begun tracking US aircraft flying west of the Euphrates. If that tracking means locking on radar from anti-aircraft batteries, it is a dangerous escalation that no US pilot would be able to escape.

Beyond any doubt, the prospect of the US controlling the Syria-Iraq border through its allied terror proxies is remote. All members of this global criminal syndicate, particularly Saudi Arabia and head-chopping “moderates” are unacceptable not only to the people of Iraq and Syria but to the rest of the community.

More still, when the US militarily occupied Iraq for eight and a half years, with as many as 160,000 troops on the ground, it still failed to control the Iraq-Syria border. The policy to try its luck to control the border all over again is yet another of many in today’s Washington that is doomed to failure.

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