I’m not sure the Kurds need advisors. What they need is air support. There’s no reason that cannot continue from carriers and elsewhere.
The president just wants our ground forces and compounds out. My guess is that a major concern is the US must monitor every flight anyplace in Syria to ensure it isn’t going to make a high speed 10 minute diversion to one of our locations to deliver some kind of bio or chem attack...even conventional ordnance.
And, of course, there is the danger of ground attack against any compound, convoy, or recon team. It is true that no American can drive into any town for coffee and a donut. They’ll be killed. That’s the “peace” we also have in Iraq and Afghan. After 20 years, that’s the best we’ve got.
My Christianity tells me Islam is ultimately doomed, but in the meantime, the fanatics are still blowing themselves up.
Just to be clear the troops being pulled out are about 1000 troops and not from formally ISIS controlled areas, but from the areas controlled by the Kurds? Now I’m wondering what is the harm leaving them there. Are they potential ISIS targets? Maybe keeping US troops there is a good warning to Islamist Turkey to not try to pull any shite.