[1Old Pro]

EGG meet the faces of Dems and their adoring media.

[SamuraiScot]

The United States remains perfectly capable of wielding its vast intelligence and military capabilities when it chooses to do so in support of U.S. national security objectives.

This is an epic feat of diplomacy, military precision, and force. The troops must absolutely love our President.

And the question screams in my mind: What was being done with these capabilities before Trump?

[RKV]

Simple questions...
1) What is in America’s best long term interest in spending our blood and treasure in the Middle East?
2) What are America’s treaty commitments in the Middle East?
3) Do other nation states have interests and treaty commitments in the Middle East, and if so who and what are they?
Get those figured and we might be able to have a conversation. IMHO, and WRT Syria, a country we have no diplomatic relations with, we have no rationale to be there. We do have commitments with neighboring countries (e.g. Turkey is a NATO member), and we need to honor our agreements so they will honor their agreements with us. IOW, get the bejesus out of that sand pit.