[Pontiac]

Trump is very pro-Defense.

So am I.

I just don’t see Syria attacking the United States any time soon.

ISIS maybe will.

And I think it is ISIS that Assad is fighting with.

[Snickering Hound]

Assad is propped up by Hezbollah.

Do you really want to go on the record that Hezbollah has never attacked the US?

[Zhang Fei]

“So am I.

I just don’t see Syria attacking the United States any time soon.

ISIS maybe will.

And I think it is ISIS that Assad is fighting with.”

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The problem is the GI’s Assad is responsible for killing with his sponsorship of Syrian and other Islamists fighting in Syria. That’s not water under the bridge. It’s probably the reason many policymakers would like to give him a nudge when he’s teetering.

[Paul R.]

And I think it is ISIS that Assad is fighting with.

This war has been something like one of those goofy "pro" wrestling matches where you load a bunch of people into the ring and everyone fights everyone else, with alliances constantly shifting, and so on. In this case, with a few exceptions, for the most part Assad has not been fighting ISIS, and those two sides have not even been physically placed to engage directly in most instances.

The heavy lifting against ISIS has been mainly done by the Kurds, with US assistance.

[Zhang Fei]

Correction: The problem is the GI’s Assad is responsible for killing with his sponsorship of Syrian and other Islamists fighting in Syria Iraq.

[JimRed]

I just don’t see Syria attacking the United States any time soon.

Not directly, but a shipping container loaded with sarin or another nerve agent detonated in a U.S. port city under the right wind conditions could kill thousands and is a real possibility.