“With unflagging support of the United States.”
There are lots of mostly bad things that Joe Biden can justly take credit for, but the fall of Syria is not one of them. The only real reason this happened is because Israel threw off the shackles and decided to to after Hezbollah after a year of terror. And Biden did everything to prevent that.
At the very end, he used an arms embargo to force Israel into a fake ‘ceasefire’ with Hezbollah. But by then Israel had done enough damage to Hezbollah that Turkey’s Jihadists were able to just roll in, and Iran decided to sell them out and pull back.
But now Biden is trying to take credit.
Biden delivered a mumbling teleprompter speech that looked like an Arab Spring leftover, calling it “a moment of historic opportunity for the long-suffering people of Syria to build a better future for their proud country” and promised that “the United States will work with our partners and the stakeholders in Syria to help them seize an opportunity to manage the risk.”
And promised more “humanitarian relief.”
Mostly though Joe tried to take credit.
“For years, the main backers of Assad have been Iran, Hezbollah and Russia, but over the last week, their support collapsed, all three of them, because all three of them are far weaker today than they were when I took office,” Biden mumbled. “For the first time ever, neither Russia nor Iran or Hezbollah could defend this abhorrent regime in Syria. This is a direct result of the blows that Ukraine Israel have delivered upon their own self-defense with unflagging support of the United States.”
Ukraine certainly had the support of the administration. And that contributed to Assad’s fall. But Israel did not. And it was Israel’s campaign against Hezbollah that most directly led to this moment.
Biden provided Iran with sanctions relief and bailed out Hezbollah just as it was on the verge of defeat. He’s trying to take credit for other people’s victories while pretending that this was a desired outcome rather than Turkey taking the initiative and exploiting a weakened Hezbollah.
Joe Biden gets no credit here for anything except trying to save Hezbollah. And therefore by extension, Assad.
somehistory says
What about the mozlums who are in Syria lusting to go to Jerusalem and ‘free gaza.’?
they are chanting the infamous phrase mozlums shout when they are raping and murdering about their fake god being the ‘greatest’ and saying they are headed for Jerusalem and gaza.
What does biden say about those ghouls? Is he going to take the credit? (blame?)
WPM says
So now the jackals of various jihad groups are going to fight on controlling Syria (Turkey ,Iran?, and a motley group of beaded madmen doing the dark ages Islamic dance of death with modern weapons ) ,the Taliban group has a good up grade on weapons thanks to Joe leaving billions of dollars worth of them in Afghanistan. This senile walking corpse of an American president thinks things will get better for the natives of Syria with a bunch of various jihadist raping, pillaging ,stealing everything in sight ,and imposing Shira law on everyone?
Westman says
Maybe it’s just part of the natural yoyo cycle of Islamic nations. Radically religious until it seems better to go more secular and tolerant for a while(Turkey, Iran), then the religious think they aren’t getting ahead because Allah is unhappy and create a revolution. Then, over time, that doesn’t bear fruit and they drift back toward secularism.
Look at Iran. The secular Phalavi Regime gets overthrown in 1979 after citizens have absorbed education from the West, then it kills off many of those Western-educated in the 8 years war. What’s left isn’t quite able to quickly generate the dreams of a nuclear bomb, fighter aircraft, etc, into reality. Rocketry aided by 3rd party electronics, drone technology, and explosives expertise are faster to develop as the educated generation is passing. Now citizens are tired of the Mullahs and lack of progress. A more secular time will come again. Someday Iranians will realize they are not Arabs and get off the Arab-created Islamic yoyo.
DanC says
Hm, the only thing Biden can take credit for is his diapers.
Troybeam says
Yes and he proudly told everyone.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
So has the Tony & Jake duo figured out which Syrian militia they wanna bet on? Or are they outsourcing it to Erdogan?
Troybeam says
Will the Biden admin. bring over Syrian refugees without vetting, how do you vet a Muslim when they have nothing zero documents to use as seen in other cases of “humanitarian” aid. If he should or already has brought them over people will not be happy, just like with the Haitians.
Troybeam says
No refugees from Syria allowed into our nation.
memi says
While another despot’s demise is to be applauded, unfortunately, the Al-Qaeda’s Most Wanted Islamofascist man, al-Jawlani, with a price of $10,000,000 reward posted by the U.S. is not something we should be smiling about!
Israel was successful, without much help from the Democrats-ever-, and blessedly got rid of Hamas, Hezbollah and, because of its fighting, made the fall of Assad possible!
The problem is that the Islamists in Idlib (most fanatic Al-Qaeda/ISIS leftovers, were brought in from the all the Islamist “minorities” like Chesney, Uyguers from China, mongolians from inner Turkey, Ukrainian nazi-recruits, and the most hideous misogynist, West-hating corners of the world
And now, having shaved their beards, put on a suit and talking “diplomatically”, these Islamists are going to run a country like Syria? Is this progress?!
I hope that the Kurds, who are now being bombed by the Islamist cavemen who have forced Christians and Alwaites & Druzes in Idlib to wear the walking Female Prison of Burqa and suffer indignities for 8 years in Idlib run by the unshaved Islamists ISIS/AlQ fanatics, will, at last, have their own Nation soon. If not, Israel is in great danger from a “united Islamist Caliphate” run by this terrorist who now poses a a “leader” of Syria! Shameful. But his beard is much better shaven and he’s changed his demeanor!
Hope the Kurdish nation soon becomes a reality–the best protection for Western interests and the survival of Israel–Nyetanahyu should be forever on the alert and not be caught prematurely celebrating the Islamization of Syria as “success”.. Syria broken up in 3 parts is much more “safe” than one Islamicised country that would soon threaten Israel and Europe.
Admittedly, terrorist Al-Qaeda alumni Jawlani’s beard has been shaved to look less like a troglodyte than earlier images. Erdogan must have hired a barber from the new Taliban Styling Salon!
patel says
Biden can take credit for regime change in Bangladesh and Pakistan