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2019-11-11 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
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Top US military official says 500-ish troops to remain in Syria
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[AlAhram] US troop levels in northern Syria will probably stabilize around 500, a top American military leader said Sunday, weeks after President Donald Trump
...The man who was so stupid he beat fourteen professional politicians, a former tech CEO, and a brain surgeon for the Republican nomination in 2016, then beat The Smartest Woman in the World in the general election...
had announced a complete withdrawal.
"There will be less than 1,000, for sure," General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said on ABC's "This Week." "Probably in the 500ish frame, maybe six."
Trump's abrupt announcement last month that he had ordered a full troop withdrawal drew angry rebukes at home and abroad, with critics saying it could allow a resurgence of the Islamic State
 ISIS
...embracing their inner Islamic Brute...
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group while leaving US-allied Kurdish fighters in Syria vulnerable to a Ottoman Turkish invasion.
The US president later relented in part, saying he would leave some troops in the region to protect valuable oil fields.
| ...in order to deliver the income to the SDF, since which people have stopped claiming he deserted the Kurds. |
Milley, who has commanded troops in Afghanistan and Iraq, told ABC that it was important for US troops to remain in Syria so long as IS has a presence there.
"There are still ISIS fighters in the region," he said, using an alternate term for IS. "Unless pressure is maintained, unless attention is maintained on that group, there's a very real possibility there could be a re-emergence of ISIS."
Asked about the killing Oct. 26 of IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi by a US special forces unit, Milley said it would have a "significant disruptive effect on the organization."
| ...if not the killing of the man himself and nearby Numbers 2 and 3, then certainly by the capture of one or more prisoners and all those files and electronic devices revealing personnel and plans. I very much look forward to future reports of raids resulting from the information gleaned therefrom... and the interesting conversations President Trump will, or will not, be having with President Erdogan Recep Tayip, wannabe sultan of the neo-Ottoman caliphate. |
He said the US had "a considerable amount of information on his successor," Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Quraishi.
"Where opportunities arise," Milley said, "we'll go after him."
Trump has said he wants to wind down US military entanglements abroad where possible, but Milley predicted that American troops, already in Afghanistan for 18 years, would remain there "for several more years."
He was also asked whether he knew Alexander Vindman, the army lieutenant colonel and White House Ukraine expert who has testified about his concerns over a controversial phone call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Milley declined to comment "on a witness to an active investigation" -- the House of Representatives' impeachment inquiry into Trump. 
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