The suicide bombing in Syria...
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Started by GunterK - Jan. 18, 2019, 11:29 p.m.

that killed 4 US people and injured a few other US military was done by ISIS..... so says all our news media.... even though ISIS has not been present in this town for 2 years.

The author below asks the question... who benefits from this apparently well-planned killing, which came so quickly after Trump announced troop withdrawal from Syria... this event seems to prove Trump being wrong in his assessment of ISIS being defeated

https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/01/18/convenient-killing-of-us-troops-in-syria.html

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By GunterK - Jan. 19, 2019, 1:01 a.m.
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I asked, who would have an interest to stop US troop withdrawal?

a) the Kurds, of course.... the Turks want to wipe them out

b) the US military Industrial Complex.... the never-ending war on terrorism is good for business

c) anybody in the US who has an interest in opposing Russia, since Russia is lined up with Assad

d) many of the ME wars are about oil/gas....and the pipelines from the ME to Europe...who wants to oppose Iran and their oil-related interests in Syria?

one group that would NOT benefit from stopping the troop withdrawal would be ISIS....therefore, it seems very unlikely that this massacre was orchestrated by ISIS... they would have kept a low profile, to let the troop withdrawal complete as quickly as possible.

By joj - Jan. 19, 2019, 10:38 a.m.
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Gunter,

In the past, when US troops (or Israeli troops) withdrawal from territory, terror groups like to make a big deal of the fact that they "forced" enemy troops into withdrawal.  It happened in Gaza and in southern Lebanon.  

But it is true that terror groups also take credit for attacks they didn't carry out.

By GunterK - Jan. 19, 2019, 8:50 p.m.
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if it was not ISIS, who was behind the attack?

here it is suspected it was Iran...

https://www.debka.com/soleimani-primes-pro-iranian-militias-in-syria-and-iraq-for-terror-attacks-on-exiting-us-forces/

By metmike - Jan. 19, 2019, 9:22 p.m.
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The vast, vast majority of our military interventions in the Middle East have been complete failures with many of them being counterproductive and all of them costing tens of trillions total cost and thousands of brave US soldiers lives. 

Let's stop wasting American resources on no win, big loss situations.

Now, all of a sudden the anti military intervention, anti war media is for us staying in the Middle East. 


The Establishment Will Never Say No to a War


http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/12/andrew-sullivan-establishment-will-never-say-no-to-a-war.html


"The question before us is a relatively simple one: What would be the criteria for removing our remaining troops from the Iraqi, Syrian, and more general Middle Eastern conflicts? Or, for that matter, from Afghanistan, where we have been trapped for more than 17 long years of still open-ended occupation?

                  

If the answer to that question is that only when each of these countries is a healthy pro-American democracy, and Islamist terrorism has ceased to be an “enduring” threat to the West, then the answer, as the old Bob Mankoff joke has it, is “How about never — is never good for you?”

By metmike - Jan. 19, 2019, 9:26 p.m.
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Rand Paul has it exactly right!

Rand Paul says he backs Trump's Syria decision


https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2018/12/23/rand-paul-support-pulling-troops-out-syria-sotu-vpx.cnn

By Lacey - Jan. 20, 2019, 11:22 a.m.
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This is more about realizing  the goal of greater Israel.