波頓表示美軍將繼續留在敘利亞直到“伊朗威脅”從地圖上清除
Bolton Says US Troops Will Remain in Syria Until “Iranian Menace” Wiped Off the Map
July 16th, 2018
WASHINGTON – While most of the U.S. mainstream media spent the weekend fretting over President Donald Trump’s Monday meeting with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, Trump’s National Security Adviser John Bolton revealed, perhaps inadvertently, a dramatic change in the Trump administration’s Syria policy during a Sunday television appearance.
During an interview with ABC’s Next Week with George Stephanopoulos, Bolton was asked if a withdrawal of U.S. troops from Syria would be on the agenda of the Trump-Putin summit. In answering, Bolton not only confirmed that the “whole situation in Syria” would be an important point of discussion among the two leaders but also confirmed that U.S. troops would remain in Syria “as long as the Iranian menace continues throughout the Middle East.”
Bolton’s emphasis on the “Iranian menace” as the driver behind the U.S.’ occupation of northeastern Syria – constituting around 30 percent of the nation’s entire territory and a majority of its oil, gas, freshwater and agricultural resources – represents a departure from past U.S. assertions that the American troop presence was chiefly related to fighting Daesh (ISIS).
In addition, Bolton’s comment has now placed defeating Daesh and eliminating the presence of Iranian troops in Syria — troops that were invited into the country by the Syrian government — on equal footing. Also notable is the fact that Bolton asserted that the U.S. troop presence in Syria would continue until Iran’s influence “throughout the Middle East,” not just Syria, is curbed.
https://www.mintpressnews.com/us-troops-in-syria/245930/
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