{"id":10599,"date":"2023-05-04T14:56:12","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T14:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=10599"},"modified":"2023-05-04T14:56:12","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T14:56:12","slug":"recent-airstrikes-are-our-periodic-reminder-that-were-fighting-a-war-in-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=10599","title":{"rendered":"Recent Airstrikes Are Our Periodic Reminder That We&#8217;re Fighting a War in Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;Given that IS lost its last piece of territory&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/world\/u-s-backed-forces-declare-victory-over-isis-syria-n972401\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">roughly four years ago<\/a>, that would seem to eliminate the stated justification for maintaining an active anti-IS mission there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The argument now is that we have to keep troops in Syria so that IS stays defeated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;If you completely ignore and turn your back, then you&#8217;re setting the conditions for a resurgence,&#8221; Gen. Mark A. Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/03\/04\/us\/politics\/syria-milley-isis-kurds-troops.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told<\/a>&nbsp;<em>The New York Times&nbsp;<\/em>during a recent visit to Syria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What exactly the U.S. interest is in further suppressing a rump remnant of a vanquished terrorist group goes unexplained.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-reason-com\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"VYFoTRonDt\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2023\/03\/24\/yesterdays-airstrikes-are-our-periodic-reminder-that-were-fighting-a-war-in-syria\/\">Recent Airstrikes Are Our Periodic Reminder That We&#8217;re Fighting a War in Syria<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Recent Airstrikes Are Our Periodic Reminder That We&#039;re Fighting a War in Syria&#8221; &#8212; Reason.com\" src=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2023\/03\/24\/yesterdays-airstrikes-are-our-periodic-reminder-that-were-fighting-a-war-in-syria\/embed\/#?secret=XX63ZtgS1c#?secret=VYFoTRonDt\" data-secret=\"VYFoTRonDt\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Given that IS lost its last piece of territory roughly four years ago, that would seem to eliminate the stated justification for maintaining an active anti-IS mission there.<br \/>\nThe argument now is that we have to keep troops in Syria so that IS stays defeated.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you completely ignore and turn your back, then you&#8217;re setting the conditions for a resurgence,&#8221; Gen. Mark A. Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told The New York Times during a recent visit to Syria.<\/p>\n<p>What exactly the U.S. interest is in further suppressing a rump remnant of a vanquished terrorist group goes unexplained.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[552,272,355,314,1256,391,419,158],"class_list":["post-10599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-conflict","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-international-relations","tag-isis","tag-middle-east","tag-syria","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10600,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10599\/revisions\/10600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}