Part of a new Middle East foreign policy?
Michael DiMino, a former CIA analyst, was sworn in on Monday as the deputy assistant secretary of defense for the Middle East. Before taking the job, DiMino was a fellow at Defense Priorities, a think tank that calls itself the “hub of realism and restraint” and advocates for a less interventionist foreign policy.
Your subject line is a non-sequitur since the U.S. troops in Syria are there to control the resurgence of ISIS (in the east) while the Israeli troops are in western Syria to protect their own border.
Syria doesn’t currently have a president so you may be referring to President Trump? It’s absurd to say that Trump is bowing to Israel since the U.S. troop moves have nothing to do with Israel and vice versa.
Wendy
Oh I believe they are there to “protect” the oil. Protecting for who?
You really believe that?
Translation: US gets out of the way. Turkey occupies north to suppress “terrorists”. Israel occupies the south, with the same excuse?
Steve
For whom? For the Syrian government (whoever that turns out to be). Oil revenues make up maybe a quarter of their government income. On the world stage, maybe 0.01% of global production.
DB2
The US troops have been there for much of a decade going after ISIS which threatens the US and EU.
It was Syria where Israel was not going. I do understand forward munition stockpiles would get bombed.
You can not equate Israeli moves now with the fall of Assad with the prior US position.