In wake of the Trump administration after three years making good on campaign promises of getting the United States Armed Forces out of foreign "undeclared" wars and moving America away from "entanglements"entered into by former administrations, the Democrats in the House of Representatives prove once again that their allegiances lie with the the Washington bureaucratic class rather than the American people.
President Trump has accurately portrayed the inner beltway crowd as "The Swamp". A mix of think tanks, lobbying groups, campaign and policy advocacy organizations that are a powerful force in the mechanisms of governance. Trump has been at odds with the "Swamp" for three years as they push back virtually at every turn and on every policy he attempts to implement.
Progressive Hakeem Jefferies D-NY the House Democrat Caucus Chair this week has proclaimed how the House does not work for the President and yet it calls into question throughout this impeachment inquiry process just who these House members work for exactly. It certainly is not the President as the legislative branch is a co-equal branch of government but it also does not appear to be the people either.
The House of Representatives in the 116th Congress appears to be more of a corporation these days than a governing body with very little legislation to point to since assuming control of the body in January. In fact, many House members signaled the impeachment of Trump such weeks after Trump was sworn into office asserting he was "illegitimate".
The goal of Jefferies and others in the House since has been about "beginning with the end in mind". This process has been void of a rational due process which should alarm Americans because most of these members are lawyers. They are supposed to understand the rights and protections afforded to all Americans and they certainly are supposed to uphold the Constitution.
The focus for Hakeem Jefferies, Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff and Jerold Nadler has been impeachment at any cost. The rights of the President to due process be dammed. Very dangerous territory for the House. As Jefferies asserts that no President is a "King" , it appears that what is lost on Jefferies and Democrats is that the President is still a "citizen". A citizen protected by rights under the U.S. Constitution.
Progressives have long been hypocrites when it comes to justice. In efforts to claim social justice or assert justice for those they deem require it they routinely strip others of rights and protections provided under the laws. Judge Kavanaugh was a clear example of this in September 2018 when Democrats would trump justice and due process in favor of political spectacle and theatre.
They appear to be at it again with the impeachment inquiry. Progressives like to make rules up as they go along. They routinely move the goal posts. This time they have have holding secret hearings, withholding transcripts, and not permitting questioning of witnesses by the opposition. It makes little difference that Progressives will not get a single vote from the Republicans on an impeachment inquiry vote. Only Progressives could call that "bipartisan".
As the impeachment process enters another phase, Progressives have been all over the President regarding Syria. Hakeem Jefferies along with many Democrats claim that Trump was simply "abandoning allies" when he informed the media that the United State would be withdrawing fifty troops from Northern Syria on the Turkish border with Syria. Turkey had informed the President that the desired to clear out hostiles from the border and implement a buffer zone along the border that would be twenty miles deep. The Turks and Kurdish elements of the PKK have been at war for decades and over 40,000 Turks have lost their lives mostly in the Turkish region along the Syrian border.
The United States entered into an alliance with the Kurds in the Syria much like the Kurds in Iraq however not all Kurdish elements are the same or believe in the same things much like not all Americans believe in the same outcomes. The PKK mostly in Syria has been designated as a terrorist network whom Democrats supported when President Obama enlisted their aid against ISIS. The United States has had to deal with that alliance for years and that alliance was one Trump inherited. The PKK Kurds were provided weapons and supported by our intelligence community for the last few years even though it has been uniformly recognized as a terrorist group.
Many newly elected Democrats like Rep. Abigail Spanberger from Virginia are former intelligence community operatives that were part of the community during the Obama Administration and begs the question were these operatives now members of Congress part of the operations that armed the Kurds in Syria or part of the push for strategic cooperation with Iran that resulted in the Iran Nuclear Deal. The Iranians seek to stability in Syria with Assad hold on power. In September 2014, Obama asked Congress to fund arming and training rebels against both ISIS and Syrian back Assad forces.
The program to fund the rebels by Obama cost the United States 500 million and was canceled just one year later according to the Pentagon. The program was followed up by a CIA backed program in Syria called Timber Sycamore which cost 1 billion dollars that ultimately was destroyed by Russian bombing operations in Syria. Trump cancelled this program in mid 2017. The programs of Obama never appeared to put American forces in direct combat with Syrian forces of Assad. Many critics are of the opinion that that was because Obama did not want to upset talks with Iran who was backing the Syrian forces.
Trump began withdrawing troops as promised in early December 2018 comprising about two thousand or so troops from Syria. Trump however, did not withdraw all forces and determined to leave a "contingency" force in the are totally about four hundred specialized troops. As ISIS influence in Syria was further reduced in 2019, ultimately this would lead to Trump finalizing the final withdraw of forces from the Northern region of Syria. Much to the contempt of Progressives.
Progressives that just years for in the election of Obama were the Anti-War Party using then President Bush's military operations in the Middle East as a rallying cry. Now a decade later, Progressive have become "hawks" in terms of foreign policy and mirror most Neo-Conservatives these days in terms of the use of the military. Its been quite the transformation for leaders like Hakeem Jefferies in truth.
Jefferies charge that Trump was "abandoning allies" in the Kurds is rather striking. The United States Congress has neither proposed not passed any agreement or alliance with the Kurds. In fact the Kurds have no state of their own in truth. If Progressives seek such a state for Kurds than why have thye not opened formal debate on recognizing Kurdistan in Northern Iraq territories. If the Kurds of Syria are truly are "allies" than would it not be prudent to recognize the Kurdistan State and formalize relations given the Progressives have taken so much issue with NATO ally Turkey in the last few weeks.
Recent developments in Syria appear to have proven Trump right and his detractors wrong. Last weekend, joint operations with the Kurds whom Progressives asserted we abandoned managed to locate and kill both the #1 and #2 ISIS leaders in Syria. Just weeks after Trump announced the pullout from the North. ISIS head Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi was killed in a daring operation that has been described as one of the most decisive operations since Syrian operations were begun. One such hero from the operation is our brave commando shepherd.
Hakeem Jefferies refused to give Trump any real credit. Like so many Progressives denial runs deeps. Progressives garnered Obama and Clinton with praise for the death of Bin Laden in Pakistan some years before, but refuse to provide any credit to Trump. Abigail Spanberger VA07 as of yesterday made no mention of Trump or the operation success in Syria and yet one would think she would acknowledge the importance of such a mission regarding terrorism due to her work in the intelligence community prior to running for Congress.
Instead leaders like Jefferies and Spanberger want to concentrate on a "bipartisan" effort to condemn Trump for "abandoning" Syria and "allies" which of course has not happened. Armed forces are still present in Eastern Syria where the oilfields are in order to protect them from the Iranian affiliates operation in the region.
Syria is yet another Progressive lie in an attempt to undermine Trump. Progressive will not acknowledge it was Obama's failed policies in Syria and programs that created the vacuum that was filled by ISIS fighters pushed out of Iraq. Nor acknowledge the wasteful spending in Syria in the first place appeasing the "Swamp" and intelligence communities that even today rail against Trump because he has taken the position that these wars going on eighteen years must end.
