Tag Archives: Middle East

By reversing policy in Syria, the US is fuelling more wars in the Middle East

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“It was a bad moment for the US to stir the pot by saying it would stay in Syria and target Assad and Iran. A Kurdish-Turkish war in northern Syria will be a very fierce one. The US obsession with an exaggerated Iranian threat – about which, in any case, it cannot do much – makes it difficult for Washington to mediate and cool down the situation. Trump and his chaotic administration have not yet had to deal with a real Middle East crisis yet and the events of the last week suggest that they will not be able to do so.”

Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/syria-us-kurdish-state-turkey-war-us-is-creatign-trouble-in-the-middle-east-a8179941.html

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American Paths, Chosen and Not (1989-2018)

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“If I were to pick a single decision by an American president and his team in this century as our own August 1914, I would choose the invasion of Iraq in the spring of 2003. Of course, in that era of the ‘sole superpower,’ there were no other great powers (as in the World War I moment) ready to leap into the fray, so the unraveling that followed across a significant part of the planet would prove not to be a world war but a one-power hell on Earth. And it’s continued to unfold over nearly a decade and a half.”

Read more: http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/176379/tomgram%3A_andrew_bacevich%2C_american_paths%2C_chosen_and_not_%281989-2018%29/

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Pat Buchanan: Too Many Wars. Too Many Enemies.

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“Like the Romans, we have become an empire, committed to fight for scores of nations, with troops on every continent, and forces in combat operations of which the American people are only vaguely aware.  As in all empires, power is passing to the generals.  And what causes the greatest angst today in the imperial city?  Fear that a four-page memo worked up in the House Judiciary Committee may discredit Robert Mueller’s investigation of Russia-gate.”

Read more: https://www.creators.com/read/pat-buchanan/01/18/too-many-wars-too-many-enemies

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US, Turkish Troops Headed For Military Showdown In Syria

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“Colonel Ryan Dillon, spokesperson for the US-led coalition, told Kurdish media on Sunday that American forces would continue to support their Kurdish allies – despite Erdogan’s threats.”

Read more: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-01-29/us-turkish-troops-headed-military-showdown-syria

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Trump executive order keeps Guantanamo Bay military prison open

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“J. Wells Dixon, a lawyer at the Center for Constitutional Rights, said that formally making it U.S. policy ‘to detain Muslims forever without charge in an offshore prison’ is ‘politically expedient but exceedingly stupid no matter how you look at it,’ except as a terrorist recruitment bonanza.”

Read more: http://theweek.com/speedreads/752126/trump-signs-executive-order-keep-guantanamo-bay-military-prison-open-business

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Pentagon restricts release of Afghanistan war data

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“The Pentagon has ordered an independent federal auditor to stop providing the public with key information about U.S. war efforts in Afghanistan, accelerating a clampdown on data, such as the size of the Afghan military and police forces, that indicate how the 16-year-old stalemated war is going. The restrictions fly in the face of Pentagon assertions over the past year that it was striving to be more transparent about the U.S. war campaigns across Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan.”

Read more: http://www.theitem.com/stories/pentagon-restricts-release-of-afghanistan-war-data,302763

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Libya after US ‘liberation’: Where lives are auctioned for $400

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“A recent clampdown by the Libyan coastguard means fewer boats are making it out to sea, leaving the smugglers with a backlog of would-be passengers on their hands.  So the smugglers become masters, the migrants and refugees become slaves.”

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/14/africa/libya-migrant-auctions/index.html

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Let’s Rethink U.S. Policy Toward the Af-Pak Region

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“What has been the outcome of this 16-year quagmire in Afghanistan? The nation-building war that Bush, Obama and now Trump continue to wage has destabilized neighboring Pakistan further.”

Read more: http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=9242

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The Myth of Trump’s ‘Global Retreat’

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“Trump hasn’t forfeited America’s global leadership. On the world stage, his is a new flavor of the same dish. America is still playing the futile role of global cop, still reigns as the only superpower with a globe-straddling military presence and is still picking fights in distant regions remote to US national-security interests. The fact that it is Donald Trump at the helm of all this is fooling observers into thinking more has changed than actually has.”

Read more: https://nypost.com/2018/01/17/the-myth-of-trumps-global-retreat/

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Tillerson Blames Russia By Default For Alleged Syria Chemical Attack

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“Secretary of State Rex Tillerson blamed both Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad and Russia for carrying out a purported new chemical attack in the Damascus suburb of East Ghouta.  In the same sentence Tillerson leveled the accusation against Russia, while simultaneously pointing the finger at Assad, [thus admitting] that he really doesn’t know much at all about ‘whoever conducted the attacks’.”

Read more: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-01-23/tillerson-blames-russia-alleged-syria-chemical-attack-after-admitting-he-doesnt

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