Defeating IS is 'first priority' in Syria: Tillerson

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Defeating IS is 'first priority' in Syria: Tillerson
[AFP]
AFPApril 8, 2017
"It's important that we keep our priorities straight. And we believe that the first priority is the defeat of ISIS," Tillerson said in a clip from CBS' "Face the Nation"
"It's important that we keep our priorities straight. And we believe that the first priority is the defeat of ISIS," Tillerson said in a clip from CBS' "Face the Nation" (AFP Photo/MANDEL NGAN)

Washington (AFP) - The top priority for the United States in Syria is to defeat the Islamic State group even before stabilizing the country, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says.

Defeating the group and its self-proclaimed caliphate would eliminate not only a threat to the US but to "the whole stability in the region," Tillerson told CBS television's "Face the Nation" program in an excerpt released Saturday.

"It's important that we keep our priorities straight. And we believe that the first priority is the defeat of ISIS," Tillerson said in a clip made public on the eve of the Sunday talkshow's air time.

"Once the ISIS threat has been reduced or eliminated, I think we can turn our attention directly to stabilizing the situation in Syria," he said.

"We're hopeful that we can prevent a continuation of the civil war and that we can bring the parties to the table to begin the process of political discussions."

The former ExxonMobil chief executive noted that holding such talks would require the participation of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime along with its allies.

He narrowed his focus on key Damascus ally Moscow, with whom Washington has particularly frosty relations.

"We're hopeful that Russia will choose to play a constructive role in supporting ceasefires through their own Astana talks, but also, ultimately, through Geneva," Tillerson said.

"If we can achieve ceasefires in zones of stabilization in Syria, then I believe -- we hope we will have the conditions to begin a useful political process."

The top US diplomat insisted he had no concerns about possible Russian retaliation following an unprecedented US strike on a Syrian airfield this week.

"The Russians were never targeted in this particular strike," Tillerson said.

"It was a very deliberate, very proportional, and very targeted strike undertaken in response to the chemical weapons attack. And Russia was never part of the targeting."


REALLY, MORON????????

SO TO DEFEAT ISIS IN SYRIA, WE HIT THE VERY FORCES FIGHTING ISIS THERE!!

Tillerson is a damn fool...

Thankkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk God, we did not ADOPT ANY OF THIS INSANE STRATEGY DURING WW2 or else we would have bombed London and Moscow to defeat Hitler and the Nazi's.
I HAVE YET TO SEE ANY PUBLISHED PROOF THAT ASSAD FORCES DID THE SARIN ATTACK..
WHY IS THAT?

If only Hitler had the help-in America- of the same types of morons(libs/dems, /and (others so damn eager to show how merciful they are in defending children) now demanding that we help defeat Assad, he would have won WW2!!!!
I mean hell, we could have targeted Churchill, and the Germans would have won..
Never in world history has a false flag attack yielded such great results, IMHO..

SAY, WHERE IS THAT CONCRETE PROOF THAT THE ASSAD FORCES DID IT????

If they have it, why not publish it??

I unlike many, am not prone to jump on bandwagons unless I--KNOW-- THE COURSE/CAUSE IS CORRECT AND GOOD....
I ALSO DO NOT EVER BELIEVE A DAMN THING THE LIB MEDIA VOMITS OUT, DAMN SHAME THAT MORE AMERICANS DO NOT FOLLOW SUCH COMMON SENSE BEHAVIOR, IMHO..

Thank God, I was educated before the ffing lib propaganda system took over our schools, because we were taught that, you take time to get proof before hanging anybody....
Why the rush in this case and who advised TRUMP TO DO THIS--THAT SON OF A BITCH SHOULD BE TRIED, FOUND GUILTY AND SHOT BY MILITARY FIRING SQUAD IN MY OPINION.. -Tyr

[Balu]

REALLY, MORON????????

SO TO DEFEAT ISIS IN SYRIA, WE HIT THE VERY FORCES FIGHTING ISIS THERE!!

Tillerson is a damn fool...

Thankkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk God, we did not ADOPT ANY OF THIS INSANE STRATEGY DURING WW2 or else we would have bombed London and Moscow to defeat Hitler and the Nazi's.
I HAVE YET TO SEE ANY PUBLISHED PROOF THAT ASSAD FORCES DID THE SARIN ATTACK..
WHY IS THAT?

If only Hitler had the help-in America- of the same types of morons(libs/dems, /and (others so damn eager to show how merciful they are in defending children) now demanding that we help defeat Assad, he would have won WW2!!!!
I mean hell, we could have targeted Churchill, and the Germans would have won..
Never in world history has a false flag attack yielded such great results, IMHO..

SAY, WHERE IS THAT CONCRETE PROOF THAT THE ASSAD FORCES DID IT????

If they have it, why not publish it??

I unlike many, am not prone to jump on bandwagons unless I--KNOW-- THE COURSE/CAUSE IS CORRECT AND GOOD....
I ALSO DO NOT EVER BELIEVE A DAMN THING THE LIB MEDIA VOMITS OUT, DAMN SHAME THAT MORE AMERICANS DO NOT FOLLOW SUCH COMMON SENSE BEHAVIOR, IMHO..

Thank God, I was educated before the ffing lib propaganda system took over our schools, because we were taught that, you take time to get proof before hanging anybody....
Why the rush in this case and who advised TRUMP TO DO THIS--THAT SON OF A BITCH SHOULD BE TRIED, FOUND GUILTY AND SHOT BY MILITARY FIRING SQUAD IN MY OPINION.. -Tyr

The day after tomorrow he'll come to Moscow. So, we shall listen to what he'll want to say and we'll judge.
Personally for me the reasons why Boris Johnson cancelled his visit scheduled to this Monday are evident.

[sear]

"Tillerson is a damn fool..." TZ #1
yeah
I prefer Mattis.

"SAY, WHERE IS THAT CONCRETE PROOF THAT THE ASSAD FORCES DID IT????" TZ

“Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.” Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)
If not Assad, who?

[Balu]

Trump Has Surrendered - Will Putin Be The Next? By Paul Craig Roberts
April 07, 2017 "Information Clearing House (http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/)" - Update: Washington has reopened the conflict with a Tomahawk missile attack on Syrian Air Force Bases. The Russian/Syrian air defense systems did not prevent the attack.

The Washington Establishment has reasserted control. First Flynn and now Bannon. All that are left in the Trump administration are the Zionists and the crazed generals who want war with Russia, China, Iran, Syria, and North Korea.

There is no one in the White House to stop them.
Kiss good-bye normalized relations with Russia.
The Syrian conflict is set to be reopened. That is the point of the chemical attack blamed by Washington on Syria despite the absence of any evidence. It is completely obvious that the chemical attack is a Washington orchestrated event. According to reports US Secretary of State Tillerson has warned Russia that steps are underway to remove Syrian president Assad. Trump agrees.

The removal of Assad allows Washington to impose another Washington puppet on Muslim peoples, to remove another Arab government with an independent policy from Washington, to remove another government that is opposed to Israel’s theft of Palestine, and for Exxon’s Tillerson and the neoconservative hegemonists to cut Russian natural gas off from Europe with a US controlled gas pipeline from Qater to Europe via Syria.

By ignoring all of these US advantages, the Russian government dithered in completing the liberation of Syria from Washington-backed ISIS. The Russians dithered, because they had totally unrealistic hopes of achieving a partnership with Washington via a joint effort against terrorism.

This was a ridiculous idea as terrorism is Washington’s weapon. If Washington can move Russia out of the way with threats or more Russian misplaced hopes of “cooperation” with Washington, terrorism will next be directed against Iran on a large scale. When Iran falls, terrorism will start to work on the Russian Federation and on the Chinese province that borders Kazakhstan. Washington has already given Russia a taste of US-supported terrorism in Chechnya. More is to come.

If the Russian government had not dithered in cleaning out ISIS from Syria when Russia unexpectedly took the lead from the West, Syria would not face partition or renewed US determination to overthrow Assad for the reasons given above. But the Russians, mesmerized by dreams of cooperating with Washington, have put both Syria and themselves in a difficult position.

The Russians grabbed the initiative and surprised the world by accepting the Syrian government’s invitation and entering the conflict. Washington was helpless. The Russian intervention immediately turned the tide against ISIS. Then suddenly Putin accounced a Russian pullout, claiming like Bush on the aircraft carrier, “Mission Accomplished.”
But mission wasn’t accomplished, and Russia reentered, still with the initiative but set back somewhat from the irrational withdrawal. If memory serves, this in and out business happened a couple of times. Then when Russia has the war agains ISIS won, they hold back on the finish in the vain belief that now Washington will finally cooperate with Russia in eliminating the last ISIS stronghold. Instead, the US sent in military forces to block the Russian/Syrian advances. The Russian Foreign Minister complained, but Russia did not use its superior power on the scene to move aside the token US forces and bring the conflict to an end.

Now Washington gives “warnings” to Russia not to get in Washington’s way. Will the Russian government ever learn that coopertion with Washington has only one meaning: sign up as a vassal?

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Russia’s only alternative now is to tell Washington to go to hell, that Russia will not permit Washington to remove Assad. But the Russian Fifth Column, which is allied with the West, will insist that Russia can finally gain Washington’s cooperation if only Russia will sacrifice Assad. Of course, Russia’s acquiescence will destroy the image of Russian power, and it will be used to deprive Russia of foreign exchange from natural gas sales to Europe.
Putin has said that Russia cannot trust Washington. This is a correct deduction from the facts, so why does Russia keep putting itself in a quandry by seeking cooperation with Washington?
“Cooperation with Washington” has only one meaning. It means surrender to Washington.
Putin has only part-way cleaned up Russia. The country remains full of American agents. Will Putin fall to the Washington Establishment just as Trump has?
It is extraordinary how little of the Russian media understand the peril that Russia is in.
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate editor of the Wall Street Journal. He was columnist for Business Week, Scripps Howard News Service, and Creators Syndicate. He has had many university appointments. His internet columns have attracted a worldwide following. Roberts' latest books are The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the West (http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/inbound/nbe81oi9d), How America Was Lost (http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/inbound/7o5oendn3o), and The Neoconservative Threat to World Order (http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/inbound/w9noii8).

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Trump Has Surrendered - Will Putin Be The Next? By Paul Craig Roberts
April 07, 2017 "Information Clearing House (http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/)" - Update: Washington has reopened the conflict with a Tomahawk missile attack on Syrian Air Force Bases. The Russian/Syrian air defense systems did not prevent the attack.

The Washington Establishment has reasserted control. First Flynn and now Bannon. All that are left in the Trump administration are the Zionists and the crazed generals who want war with Russia, China, Iran, Syria, and North Korea.

There is no one in the White House to stop them.
Kiss good-bye normalized relations with Russia.
The Syrian conflict is set to be reopened. That is the point of the chemical attack blamed by Washington on Syria despite the absence of any evidence. It is completely obvious that the chemical attack is a Washington orchestrated event. According to reports US Secretary of State Tillerson has warned Russia that steps are underway to remove Syrian president Assad. Trump agrees.

The removal of Assad allows Washington to impose another Washington puppet on Muslim peoples, to remove another Arab government with an independent policy from Washington, to remove another government that is opposed to Israel’s theft of Palestine, and for Exxon’s Tillerson and the neoconservative hegemonists to cut Russian natural gas off from Europe with a US controlled gas pipeline from Qater to Europe via Syria.

By ignoring all of these US advantages, the Russian government dithered in completing the liberation of Syria from Washington-backed ISIS. The Russians dithered, because they had totally unrealistic hopes of achieving a partnership with Washington via a joint effort against terrorism.

This was a ridiculous idea as terrorism is Washington’s weapon. If Washington can move Russia out of the way with threats or more Russian misplaced hopes of “cooperation” with Washington, terrorism will next be directed against Iran on a large scale. When Iran falls, terrorism will start to work on the Russian Federation and on the Chinese province that borders Kazakhstan. Washington has already given Russia a taste of US-supported terrorism in Chechnya. More is to come.

If the Russian government had not dithered in cleaning out ISIS from Syria when Russia unexpectedly took the lead from the West, Syria would not face partition or renewed US determination to overthrow Assad for the reasons given above. But the Russians, mesmerized by dreams of cooperating with Washington, have put both Syria and themselves in a difficult position.

The Russians grabbed the initiative and surprised the world by accepting the Syrian government’s invitation and entering the conflict. Washington was helpless. The Russian intervention immediately turned the tide against ISIS. Then suddenly Putin accounced a Russian pullout, claiming like Bush on the aircraft carrier, “Mission Accomplished.”
But mission wasn’t accomplished, and Russia reentered, still with the initiative but set back somewhat from the irrational withdrawal. If memory serves, this in and out business happened a couple of times. Then when Russia has the war agains ISIS won, they hold back on the finish in the vain belief that now Washington will finally cooperate with Russia in eliminating the last ISIS stronghold. Instead, the US sent in military forces to block the Russian/Syrian advances. The Russian Foreign Minister complained, but Russia did not use its superior power on the scene to move aside the token US forces and bring the conflict to an end.

Now Washington gives “warnings” to Russia not to get in Washington’s way. Will the Russian government ever learn that coopertion with Washington has only one meaning: sign up as a vassal?

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Russia’s only alternative now is to tell Washington to go to hell, that Russia will not permit Washington to remove Assad. But the Russian Fifth Column, which is allied with the West, will insist that Russia can finally gain Washington’s cooperation if only Russia will sacrifice Assad. Of course, Russia’s acquiescence will destroy the image of Russian power, and it will be used to deprive Russia of foreign exchange from natural gas sales to Europe.
Putin has said that Russia cannot trust Washington. This is a correct deduction from the facts, so why does Russia keep putting itself in a quandry by seeking cooperation with Washington?
“Cooperation with Washington” has only one meaning. It means surrender to Washington.
Putin has only part-way cleaned up Russia. The country remains full of American agents. Will Putin fall to the Washington Establishment just as Trump has?
It is extraordinary how little of the Russian media understand the peril that Russia is in.
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate editor of the Wall Street Journal. He was columnist for Business Week, Scripps Howard News Service, and Creators Syndicate. He has had many university appointments. His internet columns have attracted a worldwide following. Roberts' latest books are The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the West (http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/inbound/nbe81oi9d), How America Was Lost (http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/inbound/7o5oendn3o), and The Neoconservative Threat to World Order (http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/inbound/w9noii8).

The views expressed in this article are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Information Clearing House.



Yeah it's the Jews. When you run out of people to blame, hit them.

[sear]

This AM I heard Secretary Wolfowitz * gushing about Trump's strike on Syria last week.

* Sec.Def. under Bush?