Congress rejected a resolution that would have pulled troops out of Syria on Wednesday, in another victory for the defense contractors enriched by the military-industrial complex.
The measure, introduced by Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), would have required the Biden regime to remove the 900 or so troops that are currently stationed within Syria within six months.
“Congress has never authorized the use of military force in Syria,” Gaetz said in a press release after he introduced the resolution. “The United States is currently not in a war with or against Syria, so why are we conducting dangerous military operations there? President [Joe] Biden must remove all U.S. armed forces from Syria.”
The resolution was rejected by a 103-321 margin as the establishment crushed the measure supported by a coalition of progressive Democrats and America First Republicans.
Big League Politics has reported on the continued U.S. presence in Syria as well as the brutal sanctions regime being enforced to punish the country:
“On October 28, 2022, John Kirby, the Coordinator of Strategic Communications for the United State’s National Security Council, announced that the US has no plans to relax the Caesar Act sanctions against Syria nor to pull out its occupying troops from the country.
The US Congress previously passed the sanctions against Syria in 2019. The sanctions target any business, individual, and state with close ties to the Syrian government.
In a way to rationalize the US’s military presence in Syria, Kirby declared that “only a thousand American soldiers” were stationed in Syria. Kirby added that the US’s mission was centered on fighting ISIS.
Kirby also asserted that the US does not want to change “the balance of power” in Syria, indicating that it has given up on its regime change policy against Syria. However, a report at The Cradle noted that the US continues to back and arm militant groups in Syria, such as “the CIA-trained, anti-government Maghawir al-Thawra (MaT) faction, which holds positions within the Al-Tanf base.”