Graham and McCain complete operatives of US Deep State: Analyst

Hawkish Republican Senators Lindsey Graham and John McCain are complete operatives of the US Deep State, which wants to keep wars going in the Middle East, says E. Michael Jones, a political analyst in Indiana.

Jones, a writer, former professor, media commentator and the current editor of the Culture Wars magazine, made the remarks in a phone interview with Press TV on Tuesday.

Graham on Sunday warned President Donald Trump against pulling American forces from Syria, saying it would lead to a re-emergence of the Daesh (ISIL) terrorist group and increased Iranian influence over the Syrian government.

"It’d be the single worst decision the president could make," Graham, a Republican member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said in an interview with Fox News.

"We got ISIL (Daesh) on the ropes. You want to let 'em off the ropes, remove American soldiers," Graham said.

Commenting on this, Jones said, “This is completely preposterous. These people were proxies of the United States to begin with. If the United States is not supporting them, they will not come back.”

Lindsey Graham’s statement was made in response to Donald Trump’s announcement that the United States was going to withdraw troops from Syria.

Trump announced on Thursday that he wants to withdraw US troops from Syria, complaining that Washington has wasted trillions of dollars in Middle East wars.

But Trump’s policy shift appears to put the president at odds with US military officials, who see the fight against Daesh as far from complete.

The US has reportedly more than 2,000 troops stationed in eastern Syria, in addition to several thousand others in the Arab country's north.

PressTV-‘Trump ingratiating himself with Deep State’

The US president is constantly making compromises to ingratiate himself with the Deep State, which wants a state of perpetual warfare, an analyst says.

Jones said that this “is part of the resurgence now of the conflict between Donald Trump and the Deep State. Lindsey Graham and John McCain are two of the biggest warmongers in the United States Senate. They are complete operatives of the Deep State.  Their job is to keep these wars going in the Middle East, for lots of reasons; first of all, in the interest of Israel, that’s why he mentioned Iran, because Israel does not want any Iranian influence whatsoever in that area, but also in the interest of the military-industrial complex.”

“Donald Trump in spite of all of the mistakes he has made, has some sense of the geopolitical reality here. The neo-geopolitical reality is that Russia now has missiles that can strike any target in the United States if they want to and the United States has no defense whatsoever against these missiles,” the analyst noted.  

“This is just not me talking. Congress called a set of hearings after Putin give his state of the union address, and the generals came and said, ‘Yes, it’s true. The United States is defenseless against Russian missiles but we have submarines that can take out Russian cities,’” he noted.

“Now this is going to be a small consolation for all the people who die in a nuclear holocaust in places like New York City. So Donald Trump is in spite of all of his shortcomings is aware of the geopolitical realties and is moving – in the case of pulling troops out of Syria – in a rational direction,” the commentator said.

“And what you are seeing in Lindsey Graham is the last gasp of the Deep State that has been trying to unseat Donald Trump ever since he got elected,” he said in his concluding remarks.

Press TV’s website can also be accessed at the following alternate addresses:

www.presstv.co.uk