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...eller så är USAs president en nioåring med dålig impulskontroll. nu måste ni som inte redan gjort det öppna ögonen för det faktum att USA styrs av en skuggregering. det kan ju aldrig vara mer uppenbart än nu, bara tre månader efter att en uttalad kritiker av interventionspolitik svurit presidenteden så förs ändå samma interventionspolitik.
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/04/168-hours-syria-policy-trump-administration
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168 Hours of Syria Policy in the Trump Administration
Let's roll the tape on the past few days:
Last Friday: Sean Spicer confirms remarks by Secretary of State Tillerson that Trump is OK with leaving Bashar al-Assad in power in Syria. "There is a political reality that we have to accept," he says.
Tuesday: Trump learns the downside of haphazard policy changes driven mostly by a desire to be different from Obama. Assad, feeling more secure after learning the United States accepts his leadership of Syria, launches a chemical attack on rebels in the town of Khan Sheikhoun.
Wednesday: Trump, apparently shocked to find out that Assad is a butcher, says Assad has "crossed many, many lines."
Today: Trump tells reporters about Assad, "I guess he's running things, so something should happen." Tillerson translates this into English: "It would seem there would be no role for him to govern the Syrian people."
Later today: We learn that the Pentagon is preparing recommendations for military action in Syria.
A few minutes after that: Regime change is once again official policy. "Those steps are underway" for the US to lead an international effort to remove Assad.
So in the space of a week, we've gone from Assad can stay to Assad must go to let's bomb Syria. This is quite the crack foreign policy team we have in Washington these days.
Let's roll the tape on the past few days:
Last Friday: Sean Spicer confirms remarks by Secretary of State Tillerson that Trump is OK with leaving Bashar al-Assad in power in Syria. "There is a political reality that we have to accept," he says.
Tuesday: Trump learns the downside of haphazard policy changes driven mostly by a desire to be different from Obama. Assad, feeling more secure after learning the United States accepts his leadership of Syria, launches a chemical attack on rebels in the town of Khan Sheikhoun.
Wednesday: Trump, apparently shocked to find out that Assad is a butcher, says Assad has "crossed many, many lines."
Today: Trump tells reporters about Assad, "I guess he's running things, so something should happen." Tillerson translates this into English: "It would seem there would be no role for him to govern the Syrian people."
Later today: We learn that the Pentagon is preparing recommendations for military action in Syria.
A few minutes after that: Regime change is once again official policy. "Those steps are underway" for the US to lead an international effort to remove Assad.
So in the space of a week, we've gone from Assad can stay to Assad must go to let's bomb Syria. This is quite the crack foreign policy team we have in Washington these days.
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