“I don’t know where your info about Syria being the largest AQ base in the world”
“Idlib Province is the largest al-Qaeda safe haven since 9/11,” says Brett McGurk”, the senior US envoy to the international coalition fighting Isis. (he tweeted this out a few weeks back, and has repeated it multiple fora. Here is one citation: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/isis-defeat-al-quaeda-syria-grow-global-attention-islamist-terrorists-jihadis-un-us-west-iraq-raqqa-a7932881.html)
“...but if so it’s because we allowed them to become so”
So on the one hand you lament our not taking action to prevent this, while on the other hand, you want us to pull out and take no action, and allow the whole witches brew free reign to commit their mischief.
Logically inconsistent. That is because it is not feasible in the real world for us to be isolationist and safe for very long. It was not that long ago that the string of increasing terrorist attacks across the West were being planned and directed from Raqqa, Syria - but not now that we are in there bombing them to oblivion.
Nn, I criticize our actions that caused this. If you want to get rid fo them, the best course of action is help Assad restore order.
You OTOH, never answered my question about how you see our involvement bringing this to a good conslusion. What is your end game? What is the victory you envision?
BTW, you are lying when you call me an isolationist. I already said we should confront Iran directly, not by pinpricking their proxies and pretending that if I don't want to be bogged down in every mideast hellhole I'm "isolationist".