What follows is a response to a July 26 article published at the Washington Post entitled ‘Why is the Trump Administration Empowering al-Qaeda in Syria?’ penned by columnist Marc Thiessen. The article – while its headline sounds like something many non-interventionists would endorse – is so filled with errors, inaccuracies and omissions that it only seemed appropriate to address it paragraph-by-paragraph.
The article begins like this:
‘Imagine that the president’s national security team walked into the Oval Office and proposed the following U. S. policy in Syria: Let’s create an al-Qaeda haven in southern Syria, by working with Russia to establish a cease-fire area where the terrorist network behind 9/11 is free to operate without fear of U. S. attack.’
In case the author hasn’t been paying attention, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the latest iteration of AQ in Syria, is primarily active in the north, around Idlib, not in the south.
This post was published at The Daily Sheeple on July 28, 2017.
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