Graham boast to steal Syrian oil reprehensible

Every time the President takes a baby step to end America's perpetual Middle East wars, he does the right thing. Such is the case with his withdrawal of token forces on Syria's northeast border with Turkey. This will allow the Syrian government, with help from neighbor and ally Russia, to take back sovereignty from US backed and armed rebel forces used for US regime change in Syria. Trump's withdrawal essentially ends our illegal, immoral and senseless invasion of Syria six years ago using Islamic terrorists to do America's dirty work. Besides failing to oust Assad, we provided the weaponry that wound up expanding ISIS in Iraq, resulting in 11,000 dead Kurds forced to defend themselves, also with US weaponry. That's good for US munitions makers; bad for everyone in the region we're defiling.

Alas, the pushback from the largely pro war Congress, military and mainstream media was so ferocious Trump threw them a sop, 200 troops to guard Syrian oil fields controlled by our Kurdish mercenaries we sacrificed in the futile effort to remove Assad. As senseless as that is, the nation's most pro war Senator, Lindsey Graham, is ecstatic. His quote yesterday sums up the lunacy of US intervention in the region.

"By increasing the production of the oil fields, we will be helping our Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) allies who fought bravely to destroy ISIS Caliphate. We can use some of the revenues from future Syrian oil sales to pay our military commitment in Syria."

In one disgusting quote Graham applauds continued efforts for regime change while stealing Syrian oil to pay for our murder and mayhem.