{"id":390946,"date":"2018-12-29T17:06:30","date_gmt":"2018-12-29T16:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/critics-of-syria-withdrawal-fueled-rise-of-isis-consortiumnews\/"},"modified":"2018-12-29T17:06:30","modified_gmt":"2018-12-29T16:06:30","slug":"critics-of-syria-withdrawal-fueled-rise-of-isis-consortiumnews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/critics-of-syria-withdrawal-fueled-rise-of-isis-consortiumnews\/","title":{"rendered":"Critics of Syria Withdrawal Fueled Rise of ISIS \u2013 Consortiumnews"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Too many of those protesting the removal of U.S. forces are authors of the catastrophe that tore Syria to pieces, reports Max Blumenthal for Consortium News.<\/strong><\/span>
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By Max Blumenthal<\/a><\/span>
<\/strong>Special to Consortium News<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Michelle Flournoy, the DC apparatchik who would have been Hillary\u2019s secretary of defense,<\/span> slammed<\/span><\/a><\/span> the pull-out as \u201cforeign policy malpractice,\u201d while Hillary\u2019s successor at the State Department, John Kerry, threw bits of red meat to the Russiagate-crazed Democratic base by<\/span> branding<\/span><\/a><\/span> Trump\u2019s decision \u201ca Christmas gift to Putin.\u201d From the halls of Congress to the K Street corridors of Gulf-funded think tanks, a chorus of protest proclaimed that removing U.S. troops from Syria would simultaneously abet Iran and bring ISIS back from the grave.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Yet few of those thundering condemnations of the president\u2019s move seemed able to explain just why a few thousand U.S. troops had been deployed to the Syrian hinterlands in the first place. If the mission was to destroy ISIS, then why did ISIS rise in the first place? And why was the jihadist organization still festering right in the midst of the U.S. military occupation? <\/span><\/p>\n

Too many critics of withdrawal had played central roles in the Syrian crisis to answer these questions honestly. They had either served as media cheerleaders for intervention, or crafted the policies aimed at collapsing Syria\u2019s government that fueled the rise of ISIS. The Syrian catastrophe was their legacy, and they were out to defend it at any cost.<\/span><\/p>\n

Birthing ISIS From the Womb of Regime Change<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

During the run-up to the invasion of Iraq, Clinton, Kerry, and the rest of the Beltway blob lined up reflexively behind George W. Bush. The insurgency that followed the violent removal of Iraq\u2019s Ba\u2019athist government set…<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Too many of those protesting the removal of U.S. forces are authors of the catastrophe that tore Syria to pieces, reports Max Blumenthal for Consortium News. By Max BlumenthalSpecial to Consortium News President Donald Trump\u2019s announcement of an imminent withdrawal of US troops from northeastern Syria summoned a predictable paroxysm of outrage from Washington\u2019s foreign […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2524,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-390946","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\/390946","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\/2524"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}