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Well said in all of your posts in this thread. We saw the result of Obama’s pull out of Iraq and the same will happen in Afghanistan. I’m speaking on this as a retired Army officer and as a former Army historian. I was not enthusiastic over us going into Syria, but we needed to pursue ISIS there.

"I was not enthusiastic over us going into Syria, but we needed to pursue ISIS there."

Yes, as soon as they became a caliphate and had huge swaths of territory they controlled, much in Iraq, we had no choice. It should have been done constitutionally though with a vote in Congress. If we wouldn't have pulled out of Iraq, we would have never had to go in in the first place. ISIS may have been created, but there would have been no mass sectarian violence in 2011 and 2012 in Iraq, ISIS would not have invaded Iraq and if they had tried the Iraqi forces backed by our supporting arms would have drove them back across in Syria not run like they actually did. We could have contained them in Syria and let them and the Russians and the Syrian Army blow each other up.