US
Warns Syrian Military...Against Operating Inside Syria!
written
by Daniel McAdams
21
August, 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...
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