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US Warns Syrian Military… Against Operating Inside Syria!

By Daniel McAdams | Ron Paul Institute | August 21, 2016

Just when you thought US foreign policy could not get more absurd. Lt. Gen. Stephen Townsend, who is listed as “commander of US forces in Iraq and Syria,” has issued a warning to the Syrian military that if its counter-insurgency operations on Syrian soil leave US troops on Syrian soil “feeling threatened,” the US military would “defend itself.”

That needs to be broken down to even be believed.

The Syrian military is fighting an armed uprising on its own soil. The US government is training and equipping several factions of that armed insurgency, in this case the Kurdish YPG militia. The US military is also operating on Syrian soil alongside and in support of the YPG militia. Members of the YPG militia have, over the past several days, been firing on Syrian government forces. The Syrian air force returns fire on its own soil and the US military that is illegally operating on Syrian soil issues a warning to the Syrian government to stop firing on insurgents on Syrian soil!

The US government has a military “commander” commanding US forces operating illegally — according to US and international law — on a foreign country’s soil.

Logic might suggest that if the US military does not want its Special Forces to feel threatened by Syrian government counter-insurgency activities, perhaps it should remove them from that foreign territory in which they are illegally operating.

But the empire creates its own logic and it is not for we mere mortals to understand it. If the Pentagon and the military-industrial complex want to threaten war in Syria (which will be de facto war with Russia) it is not our place to question it. We just plug in to our television screens and feel that soothing sound of state propaganda telling us it’s all being done to keep us safe. There, that feels better…

August 22, 2016 - Posted by | Illegal Occupation, War Crimes | , ,

2 Comments »

  1. It’s as absurd as “Sir, we had to destroy the village in order to save it”, (famous quote from the Vietnam War……or, as the Vietnamese called it, The American War)
    The Military Industrial Complex is quite clearly, unquestionably, the world’s largest “Terrorist Organisation”……..and yet, the USA President repeatedly tells the American people that he is “keeping Americans safe”
    It’s Orwellian.

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    Comment by Brian Harry, Australia | August 22, 2016 | Reply

  2. What the hell is Israel/US doing in Syria?. They are commanding thousands of mercenaries from 40 countries to unseat the legally elected president of Syria. But the Jewish controlled news media keeps telling us that we have to go and “DO SOMETHING” about the bombardments “Russia” is doing to the innocent people of Syria. But the stupid Hill Billies, Red Necks and all the laundry list of ignorant and illiterate believe the lies that are being told by the Jewmerica Media.

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    Comment by Isaac | August 22, 2016 | Reply


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