Duckworth votes war, Durbin peace, on Syria withdrawal resolution

 

Duckworth votes war, Durbin peace, on Syria withdrawal resolution

The US has been at war with Syria for 13 years now. It commenced with arming the rebels in the Syrian civil war beginning in 2011 to achieve America’s goal of ousting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The US has used crippling economic sanctions, injection of over 3,000 troops and murderous bombing attacks to achieve the impossible short of all out war.

President Biden still seeks to achieve in Syria what Obama and Trump couldn’t…American’s favorite form of diplomacy, regime change. He’s keeping 900 troops occupying almost a third of Syria to guard the Syrian oil he steals from the Syrian people needed to fund the rebuilding of their country the US helped destroy.

Sen. Rand Paul, a long voice for peace in the Senate, introduced a resolution requiring Biden to remove those troops defiling Syria. Biden pushed back, garnering 84 Senators to support his endless war. Only 13 Senators voted to end America’s criminal war on the Syrian people. One of them was my senior Senator Dick Durbin. Good for him.

My junior Senator Tammy Duckworth, no surprise, voted for endless war in Syria. Duckworth climbed to the upper echelon of American power by touting her service in America’s illegal, immoral and criminal war in Iraq. She is unrelenting in promoting US world dominance no matter how many trillions it squanders; no matter how many millions in many countries it kills, degrades or devastates.

Duckworth was finalist for VP in Biden’s 2020 presidential race and likely harbors presidential ambitions. Her every vote, every speech and every action on foreign affairs represents an unequivocal disqualifier.