{"id":42243,"date":"2019-01-04T09:01:41","date_gmt":"2019-01-04T14:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=42243"},"modified":"2019-01-04T09:01:41","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T14:01:41","slug":"neocons-rage-international-and-domestic-support-for-trumps-syria-pullout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=42243","title":{"rendered":"Neocons Rage: International (And\u00a0Domestic) Support for Trump\u2019s\u00a0Syria\u00a0Pullout"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/03\/neocons-rage-international-and-domestic-support-for-trumps-syria-pullout\/\">Neocons Rage: International (And\u00a0Domestic) Support for Trump\u2019s\u00a0Syria\u00a0Pullout<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<footer class=\"entry-footer\"><\/footer>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>The mainstream press coverage of President Trump\u2019s announcement that he would be removing US troops from Syria has been unanimously apocalyptic. Journos who until a few days ago couldn\u2019t care less about the Kurds (certainly not when US president after US president has used them as a cat\u2019s paw and then abandoned them to their fate), were all of a sudden up in arms warning about an impending slaughter with the blood dripping squarely onto Trump\u2019s hands.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, US weapons, training, and backing had carved out a <em>de facto<\/em> super-sized Kurd-controlled section of northern Syria which it does not take a geopolitical expert to understand would incense NATO ally Turkey. Why prop up the Kurds and in the process infuriate Erdogan? The US-led regime-change program simply did not have many other boots on the ground to turn to. After years of arming jihadists whose masks slipped quickly thereafter to reveal al-Qaeda or ISIS markings, the game was up for the \u201cAssad must go\u201d crowd and the only move left was to pretend that a proxy Kurd militia was something called the \u201cSyrian Democratic Forces.\u201d When in fact it was nothing of the sort. It was simply the Kurds, rented by Washington.<\/p>\n<p>And the bloodbath the media and neocons warned would come about should Trump dare reconsider another US forever war? More lies and bluster. The Kurds are re-considering their foolish refusal to partner more closely with the Syrian government against foreign-sponsored insurgencies. Just last week, they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2018\/12\/28\/abandoned-us-syrian-kurds-request-help-assad-regime\/\">began negotiations<\/a> with Damascus to reconcile and forestall a massive Turk incursion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article..<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neocons Rage: International (And\u00a0Domestic) Support for Trump\u2019s\u00a0Syria\u00a0Pullout The mainstream press coverage of President Trump\u2019s announcement that he would be removing US troops from Syria has been unanimously apocalyptic. Journos who until a few days ago couldn\u2019t care less about the Kurds (certainly not when US president after US president has used them as a cat\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5001,18364,7844,561,776,827,834,862],"class_list":["post-42243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-anti-war","tag-daniel-mcadams","tag-donald-trump","tag-neocons","tag-syria","tag-united-states","tag-us","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42244,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42243\/revisions\/42244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}