[ek_hornbeck]

Yes, Trump should do exactly as Obama did. Pull out too early from Iraq which caused the rise of ISIS to go hacking and slashing through the middle east in the first place. Let's just repeat prior mistakes because we want to see 2000 troops who are not in imminent danger leave Syria.

The reason there's an ISIS in Syria to begin with was bipartisan support for "the Arab Spring" and regime change in Syria. If sane voices had prevailed against the interventionists, we wouldn't have had this mess to begin with. It was basically a repeat of what happened in Libya, except for the fact that Assad is still nominally in power.

Until 2011, Syria was a stable country with no ISIS or Al Quaeda presence. As soon as interventionists started egging on the rebels, the nation imploded and became a breeding ground for the Al Nusra front and ISIS. In spite of this, there are people who look at Syria as an example of why we need more intervention and "regime change" rather than less.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

"Until 2011, Syria was a stable country with no ISIS or Al Quaeda presence. As soon as interventionists started egging on the rebels, the nation imploded and became a breeding ground for the Al Nusra front and ISIS. In spite of this, there are people who look at Syria as an example of why we need more intervention and "regime change" rather than less."

I won't argue with you about how we got here. My feelings at the time were that we should have kept a larger troop presence in Iraq and not fed into any of the rebels pipe dreams. The only ones I trust and still do trust are the Kurds. We could have protected our allies and kept the crazies in Syria to blow themselves (and Assad if they wanted to) up. We could have assisted Iraq in setting up refugee camps in the Western part of Iraq to assist any fleeing refugees but stayed out of the Syrian hellhole. But it spilled over into Iraq and was looking to destabilize the whole region. We couldn't let that happen.