[Peace-discuss] NFN

[Karen Aram]

The most recent “News from Neptune” program was especially good, in that you focused on the war in Syria, and that which is related.

I know for those opposing war, myself included, hearing mainstream media “complain” that Trump is bringing home the troops, thus losing the war, is disturbing, though I have given up hearing anything other than sheer nonsense from mainstream media, and its “Deep State” supporters. However, it’s not the end of the war for the people of Syria, just by removing the US troops, placed there in 2017.

The US has been in Syria since 2011, with our proxies, contractors/mercenaries whom we refer to as “advisors,” as well as our largest military base in the middle east, located in Qatar. We have already “fragmented” or partitioned 1/3 of the country, which we now occupy. Yes, this leaves the Kurds unprotected, but we were never there to protect them, we used them.

During the Vietnam war, we often say. “Why don’t we just say we won, and leave.”

Trump is doing just that, saying “we won, now we’re leaving,” a joke given we lost, not having achieved our goal of regime change, and it has been Russia fighting ISIL, while we supported ISIL or the “moderate rebels, especially Jabhat Al Nusra, now known as Jabhat Fateh Al-Sham.

I fear the American people whether supporting or not, will now think, the US is at peace in the middle east. Given the upcoming holidays, I appreciate the sentiments, but not the lie.
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