No Policy U-Turn: US Won’t Leave Syria After ISIL

Rasa - The United Nations has just issued a statement requesting the United States pause their indiscriminate airstrikes against ISIL’s self-declared capital Raqqa to allow civilians to flee the city.

News ID: 431967

Date: 26 August 2017 - 20:41

RNA - Despite the rising civilian death toll, US officials are not taking the call seriously. They are rejecting this call, with Special Envoy Brett McGurk claiming that the war against ISIL is going very well, and that the “number one thing we have to do to help civilians in Raqqa is continue the war and defeat ISIL outright.”

That’s unsurprising, as the Pentagon regime always goes out of their way to downplay the huge civilian toll of their ISIL air war, and appears to be confident that they can continue to mislead everyone about the number of people actually being killed in their strikes long enough to defeat ISIL outright:

A- By building new illegal military bases inside Syria, it looks like the US may be in for another occupation of another Middle Eastern Arab country against the will of its people. Syrians may soon come to witness a lengthy US occupation of the eastern half of their country.

B- The US is not interested in a peaceful diplomatic resolution of the conflict. This is while three ceasefire guarantor states, Iran, Russia, and Turkey, have been trying to coordinate a whole range of specifics of maintaining four de-escalation zones in Syria. By escalating the air war, it is obvious that the US has no intention to ensure the implementation of the ceasefire.

C- The US will try to turn the situation to its own favor, even though Iran, Russia, and Turkey have done a lot to end up the military conflict and lay groundwork for the political settlement of the crisis. The US intends to maintain tensions in the Middle East, and in Syria in particular, for its own self-serving interests. Even the three-star US general in command of American forces in Syria and Iraq agrees. General Townsend says, “The US will leave Syria as soon as ISIL is defeated, but not really. Actually, they will stick around. US troops won't be leaving Syria any time soon.”

D- The Trump White House’s attempt to channel the UN in its feigned contempt over the atrocity in Raqqa may have fooled some people, but many can see right through its pretentious façade. If President Trump really believed that Syrian people matter, he would never have enforced a travel ban on vulnerable refugees. Here again, this is not just an indictment on President Trump; the entire military and political class in the US has the blood of innocent Syrian people on its hand.

E- President Trump is using the Raqqa offensive as props for an unpaid infomercial for his grand plan to create more jobs in the nation he yearns to make “great again.” Thanks to the ongoing wars in Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya, the Military Industrial Complex is alive and well. Immediately after Trump garnered victory over Clinton, Raytheon shares experienced a 7.5% surge. In case you’re wondering, Raytheon is the manufacturer of the 59 Tomahawk missiles used in last January attack against Syrian government forces at the Shayrat Airfield in Homs province.

F- President Trump views the Middle East as a rich man’s playground that is ripe for exploitation. He has made no secret about his desire to steal Arab oil to pay for the rebuilding of societies that were decimated by US foreign policy. He couldn’t care less about the impact such an act would have on a nation’s ability to rebuild. In fact, the undeniable enticement to war is a direct affront to a sovereign nation. If he is so concerned about fighting terrorism and human rights abuses, why doesn’t he act against the apartheid attitudes that permeate the Israeli regime?

G- Last but not the least, President Trump appears totally unconcerned about the reality that Europe is often left to pay the price for America’s militarism. The US won’t leave Syria after ISIL because the US is not in closer proximity to the Middle East. Isolated by thousands of miles of ocean and with military installations strategically embedded in foreign soils, the War Party acts in the Muslim world with bullish impunity. It is Europe that’s left with the arduous task of absorbing terror attacks and about 1.5 million refugees, people who have been displaced as a direct result of American interference in Middle East affairs.

The War Party can say what it wants about the ongoing atrocities in Raqqa, but an argument can easily be made that America benefits the most from this war. True, US and Saudi diplomats have reportedly been urging their terror proxy forces to come to terms with President Bashar al-Assad’s role in Syria’s future as the allied forces of Iran, Syria, Russia and Hezbollah irreversibly hold the upper hand on the battlefield against all foreign-backed terrorist groups. But that’s all really. There will be no major policy U-turn on the part of warmongers. In the words of President Assad, they will try to get in politics what they failed to take in war.

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