Riyaz Patel
Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden – who, back in the good old Obama administration days, lobbied for the arming of ‘moderate’ rebels, whatever that means, in Syria has blasted President Donald Trump for downgrading the US military to an oilfield occupation force.
“Leaving troops behind like [Trump’s] doing now – he says that what he wants to do is we’re going to occupy the oil fields and we’re going to take ‘em,” Biden told the Wall Street Journal.
He expressed deep regret that the vacuum left by the withdrawal of US troops has disastrously been filled by the (legitimate) Syrian government, Russia, and (probably worst of all) Iran.
Oh, and Islamic State terrorists of course.
“That’s like a giant 300-foot recruiting poster for ISIS“
Back in the days in the Obama administration, Biden lobbied for a $500-million Syrian rebel train and equip program – even though he
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