Thursday, 12 December 2024

The U.S. in post-revolutionary Syria: “hands-off” doesn’t mean isolationism

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“Hands off” says Trump. Talking about what the U.S. should do about the revolution in Syria.

“Hands on” say the elite, “Let’s do more nation building!” (Ignoring how badly that’s gone in the past quarter century).

Last time around Trump 45 was the same, yet didn’t isolate America from the Middle East. He dropped a missile on primo-terrorist Qasem Solemani, and unleashed U.S. forces on ISIS, crushing them in short order. (They have only revived under the Obama-Biden conciliation).

Jonathan Tobin explains clearly in the video above, the difference between nation building, which has been a quagmire for the U.S., and focused intervention. Like Trump saying to Israel “do what you have to do against Hamas, against Hezbollah, against Iran, against Syria. And we’ll support you.”  

Which is very different from Obama-Biden saying to Israel “we have your back”, the. putting a target on that back. Refusing key armaments. Demanding capitulationist “ceasefires”. Don’t go into Rafah. Don’t attack Hezbollah …

The sitrep in Syria is “evil replaces evil”. The Syrian civil war these last ten years took 500,000 lives and 6.7 million refugees. Numbers which dwarf what’s happened in Gaza, in Lebanon, over the last year, and dwarfs the number of refugees from the 1948 Israel war of independence . Yet we’ve heard not a peep about that. Till now. Because, you know, it’s just Muslims killing Muslims. Not Jews killing maniacal jihadist murderers in self-defence. 

ADDED: The Quad have a say, including about the “miracle” of destroying 80% of Syrias armed forces. 

JNS: Marc Regev and Ruthie Blum discuss the IDF attack in Syria.

“Bravo to the IDF” says Hugh Hewitt.