Kurds are US allies and the legitimacy of the inviter of Russians, President Assad, son of President Assad, is questionable.
Syria is set up wrong and it was always known it will blow up. The way the father Assad set it up was that 10% of the population - his religious sect of Alawites - rule over the rest of the 90%. That setup is inherently unstable.
Now the old Assad died and his son was “elected” president with 99.9% of the votes, but the son doesn’t have his father’s instincts to hold this inherently unstable thing under his rule. There was a drought and the hunger protests started. Young Assad’s answer was to release all the islamic fanatics from the prisons in hope to delegitimize the protests. He is that incompetent!
So my opinion is that the current rule structure of Syria is not going to work anyway plus they’re asswipes supporting terrorism in Iraq.
Which still doesn’t give us a right to intervene.
What, in our past meddling in the ME, justifies our involvement in Syria?
Is Iraq such a success that we should want to accomplish the same in Syria?
Those people are not worth our blood and treasure. Bring our troops home.
“There was a drought and the hunger protests started. “
They were hungry and a revolt just “happened”. LOL Wikileaks explained how it was a USAID/CIA project to destabilize Syria. Part of the Arab spring designed to carry out the Saudi plans for the region. You whine about Alawite control but forget something. Sunni countries like the Saudis and the emirates, are brutally repressive. There is NO vote. Women are property. Judiasm and Christianity cannot be practiced openly.
Assad’s Syria let women wear what they wanted, drive, work where they wanted, divorce, and even sip wine in a bikini on Latakia beach. You could have a Christian church, and there was even a synagogue for a small Jewish population in Damascus.
Removing Assad is our war aim, not defeating ISIS. ISIS was our tool until it got out of hand. That is why we are not very aggressive with them still, while bombing Syrian forces every chance we get.
Removing Assad merely ensures a new Sunni theocracy will emerge.
It’s unAmerican to protect Al Qeida/FSA/or ISIS.