“Our leaving ends nothing. There is still the war in Northern Syria with our allies the Kurds wedged between Erdogan and the ISIS forces & other allied Islamists.”
The very best thing that could happen for the Syrian people is for the Government of Syria to regain control over the entire territory.
The Kurds did OK under Assad.
And the Syrian army would be in a position to repel Turkey, even if they have to rely on Russian help.
Wouldn’t it be ironic if the Syrian army came to the rescue of the Kurds. The Kurds have existed along before we got involved.
“The Kurds did OK under Assad.”
Yea, there is nothing like being an oppressed minority in what is truly your own land (the Kurds were there long before any Arabs or any Turks - they have been there since before Christianity as well). Assad, like the Ottomans, is just another in a long line of occupiers.