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now. russia prepares humanitarian corridors to help civilians leave the syrian enclave of eastern but it's not clear if rebel and terrorist groups there will let anyone go. the u.n. security council unanimously adopted a resolution to extend sanctions on yemen with russia blocking an earlier draft of the wreck that condemned iran. as its me gets ready for the weekend's general election protesters across the country turning violent to stop the center right coalition coming to town. and russia streets are greeted by family friends on funds back home after the winter olympics places in south korea.

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is. still. going to. come from. hello and welcome to crossfire where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle are you a confused by washington syria policy rest assured you're not alone trump says one thing while his generals do otherwise also brinkmanship with north korea isn't working and why moving the u.s. embassy to jerusalem is still a bad idea. across

talking some real news i'm joined by my guest mark sloboda he's an international affairs and security analyst we also have alex christopher our oh he is the director and writer for the duran dot com and we have dmitri bobbitt she's a political analyst with sputnik international rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it mark let's first go to this authorization for the use of military force the pentagon says. it doesn't need any kind of authorization because the authorization that the u.s. government gave to the military to intervene in iraq still holds though isis didn't exist in two thousand and three. under international law this is just a blatant violation there is no there is no united nations security council resolution the country involved syria has not requested for help and on top of it you you have. a military presence in a country where you possibly could go into

a military conflict with another mate a nato country turkey and of course it's a face down with russia is this authorization issue in portland or not of course it's important first of all there of course there is no u.n. security council authorization for the u.s. to be in syria there is there there in the. of the syrian u.n. recognized syrian government that wants them to leave that there is obvious there partitioning the country but what has the us ever cared about international law so that doesn't even appear in the us media if you never hear about it right but we get to the issue that is also still barely covered which is is the u.s. legality of the war in syria of the war on syria and it's done under the two thousand and one two thousand and three authorization of the use of military force for iraq against al qaeda which is still being used by the united states to justify its presence in military conflicts all of the so when this is

a justification for endless wars thinking they say that they have the authorization you just move the goalpost as it were and say this is what covers it ok i suppose it will fly to yemen in somalia and only those who are getting it is ok so i mean you know it. it's already a justification and it doesn't matter the circumstances that was done once and it applies the entire region to how this never get to that obama is the person that ramped up the u.s. presence in syria and so the justification was to fight al qaeda then obama comes and he supports an eight al-qaeda isis springs up out of out of al qaeda and now trump in his generals and i would even say trump i would say the generals are going to show their you know you know where i'm going there now using it as it's accused to have u.s. troops permanently based in syria and alexander recurs who are very good peace and around about this explaining that this is really the united states is playing seat

option and and no one's talking about the u.s. plan c. which is actually derived from macmasters that many people think is the person that's pushing the u.s. permanent presence in syria more out of spite than anything else so this is a situation where you have a country that's not why did not invite you like mark said no no one. when there is no international security council resolution nothing for the u.s. to be there but there they are and they're not going to leave easily you know we had trump when he was speaking publicly the press conference a quote get isis and go home ok let me have the whole thing there were right there for one reason to get rid of isis and get rid of isis and go home but his generals i think as we've been saying for weeks if not months on this program say something very different but look what it will spread from two thousand and one it was their attack against the united states you know the point that was when this authority was given it was going. anyway so two thousand one mary mind you out

of nineteen terrorists who participated in that terrorist acts fifteen were saudis there was not a single syrian not a single iraqi not a single bit but because of this event the united states intervened in the bit in iraq in syria now they say that if the government troops get too close to them in syria they're going to self defense soon to attack them and that's good that's a second the next level of. i legally regime change it depends because several buildings were destroyed in the united states back in two thousand and one by the people who were not citizens of syria but who somehow lived in the same region who actually were citizens of a country that is our ally and we just sold them one hundred billion dollars worth of weapons but that's not important what is important is that it happened in two thousand one and now we can kill anyone who gets close to us in syria syrians close

to the u.s. soldiers in syria. that's like russia moving troops within its own border and it's called a provocation you know where one of the interesting is from a media point of view is it any time trump says something equal to go live. the liberal media like to say this is a perfect example of saying something that has nothing to do with policy but nobody says a word a word it's remarkable how the mainstream liberal media they won't jump on this they'll jump on just about anything else is long as the neo-con agenda is moved forward he can quote unquote law all he wants there because there is no opposition in either the u.s. you know political elite or within the media only they are all cheerleading us regime change efforts now transitioning to partition efforts in syria they're all back at there's there's no objection even if trump is doing it in fact that's the

few minutes that he actually gets some temporary plaudits right now when he does take over military action there i thought it was a little funny this week to see tim kaine the democratic senator question. the trumpet ministrations legal authority to be there well there is using the exact same authority that obama used to be there quick unsupported use to be there so tim kaine's objections come off as a poor little little bart isn't my first question he why is it important alex is really really important because. what we had. as a backdrop of the pentagon papers in one nine hundred seventy one about us behavior in indochina and i rank everyone here by age but i remember the talk of the imperial presidency where the president has the right to do on a whim like we saw the missile strikes i think in april the trump conducted against syria this is what i find really quite disturbing because we don't we yeah exactly

but you know you have congress you know when it's trying to used to hang cling on to hits it's authorities when it came to foreign policy now they're just giving it away and for. democrats and liberals. this is. very strange of the ones that want to accountability from the imperial presidency but they're only adding fuel to this and the congress has essentially walked away from its obligations when it comes to foreign policy as mark said there is no debate about any of these issues and the issues of war and peace could not be more important it will look let's not forget going back to when trump did send missiles on to the airbase in syria the first mainstream media or she would have. missiles brian williams c.n.n. said he finally became president this is the day when trump became president starting to think or i have said there are you so you have this and they were presidential when it comes to war there that this is not a partisan issue is an important distinction first of all congress has completely

abrogated its authority its constitutional authority to declare war the president the executive office as by the constitution does not have that power congress for decades now has refused to take that power back why because it's in pursuit of us germany their own support of it but congress has tried to take foreign policy powers that they don't have and this was russia comes to knowing it was the sanctions against us enemies russia iran and others where they tried to force so the trump administration to their vision of foreign policy which is economic war against iran let's not forget that obama wanted to invade syria and he went to congress to try to and congress would have conforte but the american people did not have a nap it was like an invasion just like it happened in britain and they still went in and.