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http://buchanan.org/blog/us-sucked-syrias-war-128732

Pat Buchanan has a good column, his latest. Pat was disappointing me for a while, so I don’t take everything he says as gospel but he’s usually a good read and often right.

He’s wised up some with this latest column. We will see.

"Has President Trump thought through where we are going with this deepening commitment in Syria, where we have only 2,000 troops and no allies but the Kurds, while on the other side is the Syrian army, Hezbollah, Russia and Iran, and Shiite militias from Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan?"

With the sometime exception of the Russians, just about everyone else he lists can't fight their way out of a wet paper bag. They're good only at killing civilians.

Trump has signaled to the Russians that we are not a threat to their interests unless they allow Syria to become an Iranian colony. If they replace Assad with a less Iranian allied client and boot the Iranians out, I think we'd be quite happy to let the Russians run the show.

The problem is that the Russians don't have the strength to do that. So we'll see.

Thanks for link to Buchanan article. The takeaway from it and on the entire situation is:

“What this signals is that, though ISIS has been all but evicted from Syria, the U.S. intends to retain that fourth of Syria as a bargaining chip in negotiations.”