{"id":181735,"date":"2019-01-07T10:15:14","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T10:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=181735"},"modified":"2019-01-10T06:36:18","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T06:36:18","slug":"bolton-us-troops-will-not-leave-syria-till-isis-beaten-and-kurds-protected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=181735","title":{"rendered":"Bolton: US troops will not leave Syria till Isis beaten and Kurds protected"},"content":{"rendered":"

Introduction \u2013 Jan 7, 2019<\/h1>\n

Forget all the media blather about Trump\u2019s plan to withdraw from Syria. It is not happening and nor is it likely to happen in the near future. Trump\u2019s national security advisor John Bolton suggested as much on Sunday when he indicated that the withdrawal plan was on hold.<\/h5>\n
In fact the withdrawal has not even commenced and there are now reports of large US military convoys re-supplying American positions in Syria<\/a><\/span>. We reserve judgement on this as it comes from the Syria Observatory for Human Rights, a UK based media outlet that has disseminated disinformation in the past.<\/h5>\n
However, IF this report is authentic it confirms our suspicions that the U.S. military has no intention to leave Syria. Meaning either that as the U.S. Supreme Commander, President Trump is not fully in control of his forces; or that his announcement of a withdrawal from Syria was a bluff. Or, more likely, that President Trump has been talked out of his decision to withdraw by his hawkish advisors.<\/h5>\n
So the same people who formulated the \u201cWar on Terror\u201d after 9\/11 are now in control of U.S. policy in the Middle East. So depite his campaign promise, nothing has essentially changed in US foreign policy under Trump. Ed.<\/h5>\n

Bolton: US troops will not leave Syria till Isis beaten and Kurds protected<\/h1>\n

Associated Press \u2013 Jan 7, 2019<\/h2>\n
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John Bolton. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

US troops will not leave north-eastern Syria until Islamic State militants are defeated and US-allied Kurdish fighters protected, national security adviser John Bolton<\/a> said on Sunday, signaling a pause to a withdrawal abruptly announced last month and initially expected to be completed within weeks. Achieving such conditions will likely take months or even years.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bolton also said some US troops would remain in the critical area of al-Tanf, in southern Syria<\/a>, to counter growing Iranian activity. He defended the legal basis for the deployment, saying it was justified by the president\u2019s constitutional authority.<\/span><\/p>\n

In Washington, Donald Trump<\/a> said \u201cwe won\u2019t be finally pulled out until Isis is gone\u201d. That was a reversal from his announcement on 19 December, when the president said US forces had \u201cdefeated Isis in Syria, my only reason for being there\u201d, and said in a video posted to Twitter: \u201cNow it\u2019s time for our troops to come back home.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Bolton was in Jerusalem, and was due to fly on to Turkey<\/a> in pursuit of an agreement to protect Kurdish militias. In Washington, Trump told reporters at the White House that \u201cwe are pulling back in Syria. We\u2019re going to be removing our troops. I never said we\u2019re doing it that quickly.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

But in that 19 December video, the president said of the roughly 2,000 US troops in Syria: \u201cThey\u2019re all coming back, and they\u2019re coming back now.\u201d Officials said at the time they expected American forces to be out by mid-January.<\/span><\/p>\n

One key presidential ally greeted the new goals.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI think this is the reality setting in that you got to plan this out,\u201d said Senator Lindsey Graham, a Republican from South Carolina.<\/span><\/p>\n

He told CBS\u2019 Face the Nation that \u201cthe bottom line here is we want to make sure we get this right, that Isis doesn\u2019t come back. And I applaud the president for re-evaluating what he\u2019s doing \u2026 He has a goal in mind of reducing our presence. I share that goal. Let\u2019s just do it smartly.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Continues \u2026 <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Despite Trump\u2019s December announcement the withdrawal of US troops from Syria is not happening and nor will it happen anytime soon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34,83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the_war_on_terror","category-syria"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=181735"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181739,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181735\/revisions\/181739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=181735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=181735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=181735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}