Syria has been going on for a long time and we have mostly special forces there.
No one serving in Syria was surprised to be there.
To be sure, there may be Americans who are thrilled to be there; medals are won on the battlefield, and there are certainly those who may be indifferent to where the battlefield is or whose sovereignty they are violating by being there.
But the President still bears the moral weight of how those in his charge are used and the series of conflicts the US opened up in the ME over the last 15-20 years bears little or no resemblance to the Just War teachings that have guided the West for millennia.
Simply put, this isn’t our fight.