{"id":76849,"date":"2017-07-03T19:24:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-03T23:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=76849"},"modified":"2017-07-03T19:24:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-03T23:24:00","slug":"is-the-writing-on-the-wall-in-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=76849","title":{"rendered":"Is The Writing On The Wall In Syria?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lummi Nation, WA<br \/>\nJuly 3, 2017<\/p>\n<p>by Rich Scheck<\/p>\n<p>The United States continues to flip-flop on its foreign policy in Syria resulting<br \/>\nin both confusion and a loss of credibility: <a href=\"http:\/\/revolutionradio.org\/?p=178325\">http:\/\/revolutionradio.org\/?p=178325<\/a><\/p>\n<p>President Trump has relied primarily on ploys and lies in his attempt to<br \/>\nsalvage what is left of the Bush\/Obama\/Hillary regime change approach<br \/>\nthat has proven to be an expensive failure!<\/p>\n<p>The recent announcement that we are withdrawing from Al-Tanf is the<br \/>\nclearest signal yet that the April retaliation attack as well as the placement<br \/>\nof boots on the ground with heavy artillery in Southeast Syria have been<br \/>\nseen by Assad and his allies as mere bluffs.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/47362.htm\">http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/47362.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The bizarre announcement last week that Syria was preparing &#8220;another&#8221;<br \/>\ngas attack on its own people was dismissed by most observers as a poorly<br \/>\nplanned scheme to manipulate public opinion after the success of that tactic<br \/>\nlast Spring.<\/p>\n<p>Other than some in the Main Stream Media and his many apologists, Trump<br \/>\nfooled no one into accepting this deception with Putin probably still scratching<br \/>\nhis head wondering what happened to his American &#8220;partners!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The anti-war elements in the GOP appear to be finally stepping up and saying<br \/>\nno to wasteful wars, one of the key messages that helped Trump capture the<br \/>\nWhite House and the Congress. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/47359.htm\">http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/47359.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>No one who has been following these events can feel too secure in believing that<br \/>\nour involvement will soon end. After almost 16 years of post-9\/11 fighting in the<br \/>\nregion on top of the first Iraq War in 1991, the long Iran-Iraq War under Reagan,<br \/>\nClinton&#8217;s 8 years of bombing Iraq and the endless turmoil that is the hallmark of<br \/>\nMiddle East, optimism about the prospects for peace seems inappropriate.<\/p>\n<p>The erratic Mr. Trump can readily turn on a dime and change directions again<br \/>\neven without the staging of a false flag event that can upset any progress<br \/>\ntowards peace while providing a new pretext for escalating our involvement.<\/p>\n<p>Is the writing on the wall in Syria? It&#8217;s way too soon to tell. But the success<br \/>\nof Syria with the backing of Russia, Iran and Hezbollah in turning back ISIS<br \/>\nand recovering much of its territory as is Iraq in Mosul and elsewhere means<br \/>\nthe end may very well be in sight.<\/p>\n<p>Cheney&#8217;s Long War needs to come to end now: for those wanting to know where,<br \/>\nSyria is a good place to start! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/47365.htm\">http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/47365.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lummi Nation, WA July 3, 2017 by Rich Scheck The United States continues to flip-flop on its foreign policy in Syria resulting in both confusion and a loss of credibility: http:\/\/revolutionradio.org\/?p=178325 President Trump has relied primarily on ploys and lies &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=76849\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}