{"id":355998,"date":"2018-04-10T01:19:55","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T00:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/syrian-showdown-trump-vs-the-generals\/"},"modified":"2018-04-10T01:19:55","modified_gmt":"2018-04-10T00:19:55","slug":"syrian-showdown-trump-vs-the-generals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/syrian-showdown-trump-vs-the-generals\/","title":{"rendered":"Syrian Showdown: Trump vs. the Generals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p><em>Editor\u2019s Note: Pat Buchanan, The Unz Review, 6 April 2018. Please note that Pat Buchanan\u2019s article was published two days before the <a href=\"news\/airstrike-hit-t-4-airbase-in-syria-after-deadly-chemical-attack-is-blamed-on-assad\" target=\"_blank\">fake chemical attack<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>With ISIS on the run in Syria, President Trump this week declared that he intends to make good on his promise to bring the troops home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to get out. I want to bring our troops back home,\u201d said the president. We\u2019ve gotten \u201cnothing out of the $7 trillion (spent) in the Middle East in the last 17 years. \u2026 So, it\u2019s time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Not so fast, Mr. President.<\/p>\n<p>For even as Trump was speaking he was being contradicted by his Centcom commander Gen. Joseph Votel. \u201cA lot of good progress has been made\u201d in Syria, Votel conceded, \u201cbut the hard part \u2026 is in front of us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, added Votel, when we defeat ISIS, we must stabilize Syria and see to its reconstruction.<\/p>\n<p>Secretary of State Rex Tillerson had been even more specific:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is crucial to our national defense to maintain a military and diplomatic presence in Syria, to help bring an end to that conflict, as they chart a course to achieve a new political future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But has not Syria\u2019s \u201cpolitical future\u201d already been charted?<\/p>\n<p>Bashar Assad, backed by Iran and Russia, has won his seven-year civil war. He has retaken the rebel stronghold of Eastern Ghouta near Damascus. He now controls most of the country that we and the Kurds do not.<\/p>\n<p>According to The Washington Post, Defense Secretary James Mattis is also not on board with Trump and \u201chas&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/syrian-showdown-trump-vs-the-generals\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor\u2019s Note: Pat Buchanan, The Unz Review, 6 April 2018. Please note that Pat Buchanan\u2019s article was published two days before the fake chemical attack. With ISIS on the run in Syria, President Trump this week declared that he intends to make good on his promise to bring the troops home. \u201cI want to get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-355998","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}