{"id":187695,"date":"2019-05-02T07:10:05","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T07:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=187695"},"modified":"2019-05-08T04:13:29","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T04:13:29","slug":"us-troops-in-syria-for-long-haul-atop-a-lot-of-oil-resources-pentagon-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=187695","title":{"rendered":"US Troops In Syria For “Long Haul” Atop “A Lot Of Oil Resources”: Pentagon Official"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tyler Durden \u2013 Zero Hedge May 1, 2019<\/h1>\n

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A high level Pentagon official has admitted that US forces will be in Syria for “the long haul” and coupled his statement by declaring\u00a0the territory contains\u00a0\u201ca lot of the oil resources and\u00a0arable land.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The unusually frank remarks were made this week\u00a0by\u00a0Michael Mulroy, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Middle East, while addressing a conference at the D.C. based\u00a0Center for a New American Security (CNAS), months after President Trump appeared to have caved to his advisers, reversing course earlier this year from his stated goal of a full and rapid US troop exit from Syria.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mulroy said\u00a0\u201cwe have a very capable partner\u201d\u00a0\u2014 in reference to the primarily\u00a0Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)\u00a0\u2014<\/em>\u00a0and quickly noted the US-trained SDF happens to occupy key regions in eastern Syria with “a lot of the oil resources and arable land,” and added that, “we are there with them”.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Pentagon official further vouched for the think tank’s new feature policy recommendations on Syria which call among other things for continuing to “maintain a presence in over one-third of the country.”<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Referencing the CNAS’ new policy report entitled \u201cSolving the Syrian Rubik\u2019s Cube,\u201d regional Iraqi media outlet\u00a0 Kurdistan 24<\/strong><\/span><\/em>\u00a0reported<\/strong><\/span><\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

Nicholas Heras, one of the study\u2019s co-authors, spoke with Kurdistan 24. He explained that of the six scenarios considered in the report, \u201cThe option that we supported is that the United States should continue to maintain a presence in over one-third of the country\u201d<\/strong> and \u201cshould invest more<\/strong>, both in terms of financial resources and personnel to stabilize\u201d that region of Syria.<\/span><\/p>\n

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U.S. is in Syria for the long haul, says Michael Mulroy, Dep Ass Sec for Def. The US is \u201cnot in a bad situation\u201d in Syria, Mulroy said, the country has \u201c a very capable partner,\u201d & the territory contains \u201ca lot of the oil resources & arable land.\u201d https:\/\/t.co\/X4ajRef49t<\/a><\/p>\n

— Joshua Landis (@joshua_landis) April 30, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n