Trump tried to get U.S. troops out of Syria, but his own special envoy for Syria circumvented the order and crowed about it. And so a profitable venue for the military-industrial complex was saved.
And now this woke clown Milley tells us that “the ideology” of the Islamic State is “not yet dead.” Did he think he would be? Does he really believe his own propaganda about the “religion of peace,” or is he just intent on having us believe it? And how exactly are U.S. troops in Syria going to fight this ideology, since the U.S. government and military have never, ever taken it on in any way, but instead steadfastly lies about its provenance and the reasons for its strength?
Meanwhile, one must consider the source regarding the material below about the U.S. government enabling ISIS during the Obama administration, but on the other hand, there is nothing remotely implausible about it.
“US military occupation of Syria hinges on ‘ISIS threat’: Milley,” The Cradle, August 25, 2023:
General Mark Milley, the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, told Jordanian TV on 24 August that US forces illegally occupying oil fields in Syria’s northeast will remain there for the foreseeable future to “fight ISIS.”
“The ideology is not yet dead, and there are some ISIS terrorists that are still roaming the deserts of Syria and somewhat into Iraq, so that presents a threat,” Milley told Jordan’s Al-Mamlaka TV.
“There are still fighters in small groups in and around Syria and around Iraq … and if we were to somehow suddenly withdraw, those forces could reconstruct themselves. So the situation is much, much better than it was. But it still requires a level of commitment. So we’ve got some modest amount of forces in Syria, and we’ve got forces in Iraq,” he added.
The US military chief also said that the decision to leave Syria falls on President Joe Biden.
“I can’t imagine that the United States would ever walk away from [West Asia]. I think we’ll remain committed for many, many years and decades to come,” he stressed….
An in-depth investigation by The Cradle shows that the US Army was aware ISIS was gaining ground in Syria a decade ago and did nothing to stop them, particularly when the group crossed the Syrian into Iraq border in 2014 and launched an assault to capture the city of Mosul.
The US military also ignored ISIS’ advance on the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra in 2015, which by 2017 had been liberated twice by Syrian and Russian forces.
ISIS is currently seeing a resurgence in Syria, carrying out multiple terror attacks against civilians and army personnel, with some reports saying the militants are operating from US-controlled areas in Deir Ezzor….
Previous US support for ISIS was illustrated by a 2012 US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) document that indicated a Salafist principality like the one established by ISIS in 2014 would emerge in western Iraq and eastern Syria. The document indicated that this would be a positive outcome in the view of the US and its regional partners as part of their covert war against the Syrian government, which began in 2011.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Actually, you don’t make that call: POTUS does! Hopefully, you’ll be terminated under any future POTUS, & so wouldn’t even get to advise him to leave all US weaponry currently in Syria. Like you did in the case of Afghanistan, where President Trump ignored you, but Biden listened. One major mistake President Trump made was in not terminating you before Biden came in, so that you couldn’t have done that damage. If nothing else, that $89 billion of weaponry could even have been given to Ukraine
Incidentally, when did Congress pass any resolution authorizing US troops to be in Syria? And since the Syrian government never acquiesced to such a presence, when did we go to war against them to force that presence anyway? We need to pull our troops out of there, and let the countries in the area – Syria, Turkey, Iraq and Iran – deal w/ them
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I forgot to add: focus on your White Rage (TM)!
Wellington says
What an idiot Milley is. What a God-damn shame this fool is now head of the American military.
Note to Milley: The Islamic State’s ideology will not be dead until Islam is dead.
Learn this—but you won’t. You are not only a useless man, you are a destructive man. Rather like Joe Biden and Barack Obama.
My God, what has happened to America that people like Milley, Biden, Obama and Wray are now in charge of America?
PRCS says
Too many clueless “leaders”.
General George W. Casey Jr. (former Army Chief of Staff) and the son of a real Army General (George W. Casey Sr.) said this about Malk Nidal Hassan’s 2009 Fort Hood jihad rampage:
diversity shouldn’t be casualty of Fort Hood
https://yn1963.blogspot.com/2010/05/general-casey-diversity-shouldnt-be.html
An all too common malady, it seems.
Westman says
What happened? Spending America’s wealth on 50+ years of wars against entities that had no ability to strike the American homeland on any scale beyond 9/11. This allowed the promotions of unproven military commanders until we now have 40+, 4-Star Generals with only 1.2 Mill soldiers under command. That is, our military leaders are politically chosen, and now in the Political Class.
The Political Class has always been incompetent and generally, lazy. Keith Ellison was likely the only national politician who “possibly” read the Quran, Hadith, and Sira. Omar, given her personal life, likely has never read much of it.
Milley, as a politician, has no clear way to square his, Austin’s, and Blinken’s pronouncements that Russia is losing/lost the Ukraine War on any level. The only path available to them is admission of mistakes/failure and calls for peace negotiations or take the US (NATO) directly into war against Russia without any assurance of winning. Americans again dying for political incompetence?
The sanctions created a competing economic system, drove China and Russia together, and put Russian on a steep ramp-up(war footing) in arms production. Meanwhile, Ukraine is running out of soldiers and losing.
James Lincoln says
Westman says,
“…our military leaders are politically chosen, and now in the Political Class.”
Yes, currently any military rank above 0-6 is political.
Brian Ozzy says
Man, you nailed it. The man is a walking, treasonous buffoon!
somehistory says
I feel at times as if we have entered the Twilight Zone for real and not just a tv episode.
Or we are watching a really freaky movie where all of those in charge have been taken over by some kind of alien insect that burrows into the brain.
and somehow, the movie becomes real life and everyone in the theater is at risk of dying a terrible death. Something much like those pod people intent on killing all who refuse to become pod people….”Invasion of the Body Snatchers.”
If bo, biden, milley, mayorkas, garland and others don’t get us, the mozlums will. At least, that is their plan.
Walter Sieruk says
It should never be overlooked or forgotten that the Islamic ideology of the Muslim terrorist is completerly based on the theology of Islam.
Fitna says
“The ideology is not yet dead, and there are some ISIS terrorists that are still roaming the deserts of Syria…”
Is he auditioning for the next Pink Panther movie as the inept, foolish and bumbling, Inspector Clouseau?
He also reminds me of Baghdad Bob. This retard seems to think this “ideology” is only followed by a handful of people.
I wonder what his reaction would be if someone whispered to him that Islam is followed by 1.5 billion Muslims, the same religion/ideology that ISIS follows.
Probably shock and disbelief. How did we end up here, with such terrible and incompetent leadership in Congress and the military?
Well we the forces of freedom lost the narrative. After 9/11 the American public wanted revenge and they would’ve gotten behind nearly any decision the elites would’ve made.
Without proper, rigorous examination of the threat and because the US govt is beholden to Saudi Arabia (SA) and other rich Arabs, they were lead by the nose to direct their anger away from the Saudis to Iraq and Afghanistan.
No doubt they were bit players in this attack…but most of the hijackers were from SA yet that nation escaped justice.
But the problem isn’t one terrorist group from this or that country…it’s always been one global enemy which is Islam.
Ofc after taking down Saddam, killing a bunch of terrorists, they declared victory and left it at that. But the real game-change was that the Left decided to turn on the Conservatives because of alleged “fake news” about WMD’s to justify the invasion.
That ofc made them appear illegitimate and allowed the Left to take power and discredit the valid points raised by the Right. Unfortunately the US afterwards took a posture of extreme weakness, apologizing to our enemies, and elected one of the worst president’s in US history, Obama….a closet Muslim who took full advantage to dismantle and degrade the agencies that eventually probably figured out that we’re at war with Islam.
He systematically removed experts and other professionals who knew what was really going on…while pretending to be a mild-mannered nerd that the crowds apparently loved.
So that’s how we got this uninformed moron as a general and one wonders if the US will even regain it’s former might and stature…given the damage the Left has done.
Had the US realized Islam is a global threat, then we would’ve gone after the world’s most dangerous terrorists groups (and there are many thousands) and neutralized them.
Eventually they’d realize Islam and Secular-Democracy are enemies and one must destroy the other. Thousands of lives could’ve been saved.
It’s also very likely we would’ve put policies in place to ban Muslim immigration and maybe deported the ones already here.
Basically after Bush lost the propaganda war, then the Left chose surrender and that’s why we see all the problems we do today.
We’re going to need strong leaders who are not just well educated on Islam but also realize that Leftists are also the enemy of freedom-those who support Islam and Muslims and want to censor any criticism of this ideology.
I hope we win in the long run and I believe we will, because there’s way more people who love freedom (esp in the US) than those who’d want to give in to Islam, but when that real fight for the West will occur is anyone’s guess….right now we’re still losing and Muslims have the upper hand.
Perhaps millions will have to suffer and die first by Muslim hands, until we say enough is enough.
Brian Ozzy says
An excellent summation Fitna.
Fitna says
Thanks kindly Brian.
James Lincoln says
Seconded.
Thom says
If Islam gains the upper house as it were, it’s too late. Delaying in saying enough is enough is unacceptable… especially if one is learned about the ideology of Islam.
Fitna says
Indeed Thom, I think while the smart people are cluing in now to the dangers of Islam, there’s still a knowledge gap for the ‘vox populi’ (average citizens).
That’s where the media/politicians comes in, to educate them (as few people do their own research) and they’ve been either informed not to tell the masses about Islam or are too afraid to do it, for fear of backlash, as Muslims have shown what they do to anyone who dares to speak out against their evil death cult.
If over 80% of the population understood and saw Islam the way we do here as followers of JW, then it would’ve been solved already, as we’d all be on the same side on this issue. Ofc the other problem is Leftists and ‘useful idiots’ who support this ideology and are getting in our way.
Some of them are trying to prevent WW3, but that’s being done at our expense. If the natural consequence of two incompatible ideologies is to battle it out, then it should be allowed to happen or the conflict will only be that much larger if it’s delayed.
And if the authorities aren’t going to take on Islam, it’ll fall on ordinary people to do so…otherwise as Muslims grow their numbers, they’ll become majorities in towns, cities and force others out and that’s how they’ll Islamify our nations, street corner by street corner. Obviously we cannot allow them to get away with it.
Norman Gardner Gardner says
It was Obama who refused to attack ISIS forces when they were ravaging and expanding in the Mid East. His excuse was that some innocent pepe might be killed. That was when ISIS was selling oil on the black market and earning millions for their treasury and killing people.
ISIS is still a threat , not only in Syria and Iraq but they have their supporters in the USA .
They must be crushed.
angelo barbato says
Right there is the evidence for Americas decline and fall ñ
Tony Chopkoski says
Actually, what we have here is America’s stabilizing the world. Without us the place would be a shithouse. Like Afghanistan has become…another Biden product of the ass. Yup, old Joe is right up on things in a very demented way. And sometimes he hangs in there, as in Syria. And it ain’t of his making, puppet that he is.
Billy Bones says
The ancient Chinese military strategist, Sun Tzu, is famous for his quote “Know your enemy.” Following 9/11 there was a deliberate effort to not know the enemy, which continues to this day. Early on there was some brief effort to bring experts on Islam on board at the Pentagon, including Robert Spencer, but they were all shown the door.
JCA (Alex) REID says
you want IS etc. dead….. KILL ISLAM1 All it is is a Desert Nazi Ideology.
JCA (Alex) REID says
Want to kill IS etc. Then kill Islam!
FYI says
Milley need to come out of the closet.
Just admit he has absolutely no military competence.
And always remember these folks in effect,supplied weapons to the Taliban.Thanks Joe!
out!out!out!out!out!
Walter Sieruk says
There is much talk about rooting out the ideology of Islamic terrorism. What is not mentioned is that the foundation of this type of terrorism is the theology of Islam’s “holy book” the Quran. For the Quran instructs in the uses of violence and killing for the advancement of Islam. As found in, for example, 2:191. 5:33. 9:5, 111.123. 47:4. Therefore Islam is a false, dangerous and deadly religion.
Walter Sieruk says
Dr. Sabastian Gorka , well, understands that the root cause of the ideology of Islamic terrorism which is based on Islam. For in his book which is entitled DEFEATING JIHAD explained about the jihadist –Muslims on page 132 which reads “The enemy’s center of gravity is ideology of holy war against the infidel…”
This is, of course, the ideology of Islam’s jihad [Islamic terrorism] is based on the Quran,5:33 4:89 9:111,123.47:4 ,in which the jihadists are in this war against us for the victory of Islam over us.
libertyORdeath says
Is anyone actually aware that the US Military is on ISIS’s side in Syria and have neen since day 1.
If not for Trump, they would’ve kept sending weapons and funding to ISIS through CIA proxys like the FSA instead of fighting them.
Remember, Russia is on the side of Syria while America is on the side of THE TERRORISTS.
Trump ORDERED the troops out of Syria in 2018 or so, but Milley DEFIED THE ORDERS OF HIS COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF (one of MANY times) – a HANGABLE offense as an act of treason.
Syria is just another money-laundering operation that feeds money into the deep-state, the military-industrial complex and the pockets of corrupt politicians like Milley.
TRUMP2024
End the Deep-state
Clifford Fodor says
If Ann Coulter were in charge of the Army Syria would be nice and Christian by now.