{"id":376433,"date":"2018-09-07T09:00:52","date_gmt":"2018-09-07T08:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/false-flag-failure-lewrockwell\/"},"modified":"2018-09-07T09:00:52","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T08:00:52","slug":"false-flag-failure-lewrockwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/false-flag-failure-lewrockwell\/","title":{"rendered":"False-Flag Failure – LewRockwell"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Last week the US warned of military strikes on Syria \u201cif\u201d government forces use chemical weapons (CW). This week, Trump comes clean by dropping any mention of a CW pretext \u2013 simply warning Syria not to attack terrorists.<\/p>\n

Trump tweeted his warning to Syria, as well as its allied Russian and Iranian forces, to not launch a military offensive to retake control of the northwest province of Idlib. The area is the last remaining stronghold of illegally armed militant groups in Syria. It\u2019s potentially the endgame to the nearly eight-year war.<\/p>\n

On Monday, Trump said: \u201cPresident Bashar al-Assad of Syria must not recklessly attack Idlib Province. The Russians and Iranians would be making a grave humanitarian mistake to take part in this potential human tragedy.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

The US\u2019 top general, Joseph Dunford, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, also\u00a0reiterated<\/a>\u00a0seeming anxiety for humanitarian casualties, calling for a \u201ctailored operation<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

So, alleged chemical weapons are no longer part of the US rationale. It\u2019s basically: don\u2019t make any military move. The American president added that \u201chundreds of thousands of lives<\/em>\u201d could be lost if Syria and its allies move to rid the province of an estimated 10,000 militants among a civilian population of three million.
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Trump\u2019s apparent \u201chumanitarian<\/em>\u201d concern seems alarmist, if not cynical. When did he articulate similar misgivings when US air forces were pounding Raqqa to bits last year, causing thousands of civilian deaths?<\/p>\n

This week, Russian and Iranian officials are working with Syria to set up humanitarian corridors in Idlib to remove civilians from harm.<\/p>\n

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Last week the US warned of military strikes on Syria \u201cif\u201d government forces use chemical weapons (CW). This week, Trump comes clean by dropping any mention of a CW pretext \u2013 simply warning Syria not to attack terrorists. Trump tweeted his warning to Syria, as well as its allied Russian and Iranian forces, to not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-376433","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\/376433","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}