Trump Administration Is Contradicting Itself On Regime Change In Syria

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The Trump administration appears divided on whether the U.S. is pursuing a policy of regime change in Syria, days after the first direct American military attack against the Syrian government.

Thursday’s strike “was related solely to the most recent horrific use of chemical weapons,” Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos on Sunday. The goal of the attack was to send a message to Syrian President Bashar Assad and its ally Russia that the U.S. wouldn’t tolerate the use of chemical weapons, he continued. “Other than that, there is no change to our military posture.”

But United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley said there can be no peace in Syria with Assad in power. “There’s not any sort of option where a political solution is going to happen with Assad at the head of the regime,” she told CNN’s Jake Tapper on Sunday. “Regime change is something that we think is going to happen because all of the parties are going to see that Assad is not the leader that needs to be taking place for Syria.​”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-regime-change-syria_us_58ea3b71e4b00de141040930

And the tragicomedy continues.

[Wellstone ruled]

1. Talk about the Right hand and Left hand

not being on the same page. Must be typical GOP Politics at work. Did we not see this Movie last Week?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Of course. That bunch hasn't a clue what they're doing.

They have no strategy for Syria or for anything else. They have no integrated, ideologically consistent foreign policy - maybe because the non-functioning, largely vacant State Department is headed up by a guy with no government experience of any kind, let alone diplomatic experience, and his boss is an ignorant narcissist with no interest in anything but making himself look good. There are a few competent people elsewhere, like Mattis at Defense, but they are mostly military folks whose only tools are hammers, and therefore they can see only nails.