The Washington Post is reporting that U.S. Marines are establishing an artillery base inside Syria. These are conventional troops, as opposed to the 503 Special Ops personnel who have been there for some time.
In pursuit of the plan, the Pentagon said Wednesday that U.S. Marines from the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit have arrived in Syria to set up an artillery base, marking the first officially announced deployment of conventional U.S. troops in Syria.
The deployment is “fraught with risk,” said Robert Ford, who served as the Obama administration’s last ambassador to Syria until 2014. He is now with the Washington-based Middle East Institute and teaches at Yale University.
“That’s not a small policy change. It is a huge policy change,” he said. “We have never in our Syrian policy ever put U.S. personnel in between warring Syrian factions or to maintain a local cease-fire.”
I mostly lurk here these days. I am not a military expert, and can't add to the information presented in the article, but this is frightening me. We justifiably have our focus on Russiagate and Healthcare and Lies and Immigration and Travel Bans and Education and on and on and on…
This development in Syria doesn't seem to be getting much attention, so I'm posting it here to give it more visibility. Thank you for reading.
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