FROM EIR DAILY ALERT
Trump Reiterates, U.S. Troops Coming Home from Syria, No More Fighting ‘Never Ending Wars’
Dec, 31, 2018 (EIRNS)—In a Twitter message this morning, President Donald Trump reiterated that U.S. troops will be coming home from Syria, stressing that he had campaigned against his predecessors’ policy of never-ending wars.
“If anybody but Donald Trump did what I did in Syria, which was an ISIS loaded mess when I became President, they would be a national hero. ISIS is mostly gone, we’re slowly sending our troops back home to be with their families, while at the same time fighting ISIS remnants,”
he wrote.
“I campaigned on getting out of Syria and other places. Now when I start getting out the Fake News Media, or some failed Generals who were unable to do the job before I arrived, like to complain about me & my tactics, which are working. Just doing what I said I was going to do! Except the results are FAR BETTER than I ever said they were going to be! I campaigned against the NEVER ENDING WARS, remember!”
Trump’s message followed statements made by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) after his lunch meeting with Trump yesterday in which he stated that he was reassured by what Trump told him.
“He told me some things I didn’t know that made me feel a lot better about where we’re headed in Syria,” Graham told reporters at the White House, reported Reuters.
“We still have some differences, but I will tell you that the President is thinking long and hard about Syria—how to withdraw our forces but at the same time achieve our national security interests.”
Asked if Trump had agreed to any slowing down of the troop withdrawal, Graham replied, “I think the President’s very committed to making sure that when we leave Syria, that ISIS is completely defeated.”
The media spun this into a tidal wave of headlines claiming that Graham said that Trump was slowing the withdrawal. Britain’s Sky News went so far as to say that Graham had said that Trump “had ordered a slowdown” of the withdrawal, but without quoting him to that effect.
