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President Donald Trump has reversed course drastically in Syria from that of his predecessor. By refusing to arm terrorist rebel groups in the region, ISIS has been decimated in Syria as a result and the Bashir al-Assad regime has been strengthened. Trump has been largely criticized for these moves by the mainstream media and the intelligence community, who are far more focused on Russian collusion than the defeat of ISIS. A document that was unearthed from the 1980s by the Activist Postsheds some light on why they have reacted this way. It turns out that the CIA has been plotting regime change in Syria for over three decades. “Bringing Real Muscle To Bear In Syria” was written by CIA officer Graham Fuller in 1983 back when Bashir al-Assad’s father, Hafez was in charge of the country. He wrote the following in the agency document: *** Syria at present has a hammerlock on US interests both in Lebanon and in the Gulf — through closure of Iraq’s pipeline thereby threatening Iraqi internationalization of the [Iran-Iraq] war. The US should consider sharply escalating the pressures against Assad [Sr.] through covertly orchestrating simultaneous military threats against Syria from three border states hostile to Syria: Iraq, Israel and Turkey.
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