US Troops Will Stay In Syria "As Long As We Need To"
Dec 6, 2017 5:49:34 GMT -5
Post by avordvet on Dec 6, 2017 5:49:34 GMT -5
Yet another never-ending conflict... and now an admitted 'occupation'.
Trumps war, yeah I remember when everyone was up in arms over obama sending troops to Syria, but now the self-righteous moral cowards just sit on their hands as more of our citizens die in foriegn lands for NOTHING.
Pentagon: US Troops Will Stay In Syria "As Long As We Need To"
by Tyler Durden, Dec 5, 2017 9:48 PM
US forces plan to stay in Syria "as long as they need to” support local partners and to ensure that terrorists will not return, a Pentagon official told AFP on Tuesday. The announcement comes as the Islamic State has ceased to be a reality, and as the Syrian Army is on the cusp of final victory over ISIS in remaining pockets of eastern Syria.
“We are going to maintain our commitment on the ground as long as we need to, to support our partners and prevent the return of terrorist groups,” Pentagon spokesman Eric Pahon said. “To ensure an enduring defeat of ISIS, the coalition must ensure it cannot regenerate, reclaim lost ground, or plot external attacks.”
Though officials recently hinted that the Pentagon would soon formally acknowledge that it has "about 2,000" American troops in Syria, the long standing official number of 503 still hasn't changed. In late October a top military official briefly admitted to 4,000 troops on the ground in Syria during an interview, but awkwardly backtracked on his statement and said, “I’m sorry, I misspoke there, there are approximately 500 troops in Syria."
As we reported previously, President Trump has made a point of troop levels needing to be kept secret from “the enemy,” but consistent lies from the Pentagon about their deployments have made the figures less a closely guarded secret than a mockery of transparency.
www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-12-05/pentagon-us-troops-will-stay-syria-long-we-need
Trumps war, yeah I remember when everyone was up in arms over obama sending troops to Syria, but now the self-righteous moral cowards just sit on their hands as more of our citizens die in foriegn lands for NOTHING.
Pentagon: US Troops Will Stay In Syria "As Long As We Need To"
by Tyler Durden, Dec 5, 2017 9:48 PM
US forces plan to stay in Syria "as long as they need to” support local partners and to ensure that terrorists will not return, a Pentagon official told AFP on Tuesday. The announcement comes as the Islamic State has ceased to be a reality, and as the Syrian Army is on the cusp of final victory over ISIS in remaining pockets of eastern Syria.
“We are going to maintain our commitment on the ground as long as we need to, to support our partners and prevent the return of terrorist groups,” Pentagon spokesman Eric Pahon said. “To ensure an enduring defeat of ISIS, the coalition must ensure it cannot regenerate, reclaim lost ground, or plot external attacks.”
Though officials recently hinted that the Pentagon would soon formally acknowledge that it has "about 2,000" American troops in Syria, the long standing official number of 503 still hasn't changed. In late October a top military official briefly admitted to 4,000 troops on the ground in Syria during an interview, but awkwardly backtracked on his statement and said, “I’m sorry, I misspoke there, there are approximately 500 troops in Syria."
As we reported previously, President Trump has made a point of troop levels needing to be kept secret from “the enemy,” but consistent lies from the Pentagon about their deployments have made the figures less a closely guarded secret than a mockery of transparency.
www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-12-05/pentagon-us-troops-will-stay-syria-long-we-need