WASHINGTON (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 06th June, 2019) The White House plan to deploy an additional 1,500 troops is based on false pretexts to spark a war with Iran and will only destabilize the region even further, Virginia State Senator Richard Black told Sputnik.
At the end of May, President Donald Trump said he would deploy additional troops to the middle East to protect US service members and interests in the region while US officials blamed Iran for recent reported attacks on oil tankers off the UAE coast.
"Any time that we add troops to the Middle East, it is a negative. It never creates a positive result. It continues the destabilization," Black said. "We're sending the troops so that we can protect our troops from being attacked. Well, why don't we take our troops out of there and then they won't be attacked? And then we won't have to worry about it."
