Posted on 09/17/2021 7:00:22 AM PDT by budj
The roughly 900 U.S. troops who are currently deployed to Syria are mostly invisible to Congress, the media, and the American public.
Syria is just the latest forgotten battlefield in the Global War on Terrorism. The troops who went there have succeeded in destroying the Islamic State group’s former caliphate, but ISIS fighters are waging the type of insurgency that the American military has a bad track record of defeating.
For the time being, American forces are keeping a lid on the situation and protecting their Kurdish allies from Turkey, who considers them terrorists. But the mission is stuck in neutral. There seem to be no prospects for victory on the horizon but a withdrawal could be catastrophic for the Kurds.
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The Forever Wars continue.
Bring ‘em all home.
After telling US and Allied civvies to pack their stuff and get the hell out, first, of course.
Protecting the entrance from Iran to Israel’s back door.
The pressure has increased because of the Afghanistan surrender to the Taliban.
WWII? or Armageddon.
This is inaccurate. Whatever is going on with the Turks, what American troops are doing is providing backup, intel and forward air observers for Kurds chasing after ISIS cells who are still operating. They are also preventing Syria from regaining control of the only oil field in Syria, from which we allow the Kurds to truck oil to finance military operations. We may also be collecting cash from this extraction to fund our own black ops, but that's unclear.
The situation is stable as long as we continue to operate in this fashion. If we leave, the Kurds will be hard pressed to keep ISIS from regaining ground.
900 troops? Probably takes about 3 generals to manage that task.
This is all about job preservation.
If all secret equipment has NOT been successfully transfered to the PLA, THEN the surrender of secret American equipment in Syria can begin.
I would like to add the '/s' tag, but unfortunately, there is likely more truth than sarcasm in my comment. How far Western society has fallen!
If you thought Afghan was bad, wait for the aftermath of US pullout from Syria : ISIS gets its own oilfields and all the Kurds get dead.
The Forever Wars continue.
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Been continuing since 620AD - you ain’t stopping it by not fighting the war, rather inviting the “forever war” to your back yard.
I’m afraid the US isn’t a country any longer - rather, it has become a collection of financial, corporate and massive government bureaucratic interests, painted over with a post-modern political and marketing veneer.
This is the story of the corrupt US deep-state, like an arsonist who then shows up to help fight the fire, constantly moving from error and crime to plausible explanation in a never-ending chain of causality.
Assad was a secular (and minority Alawite) ruler. Saddam Hussein was a secular ruler. Khaddafi was a secular ruler. Mubarak was a secular ruler. As bad as they all might have been, US policy has effectively been to destroy them, and fill the vacuum with chaos and Islamism. How many times this process need to be repeated?
“How many times this process need to be repeated?”
Until the House of Saud says we cab quit.
Been continuing since 620AD - you ain’t stopping it by not fighting the war, rather inviting the “forever war” to your back yard.
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Oh yeah....The legions of Islam are at our gates now. /s
Last I checked, the West has been invading the Middle East for the last several centuries...not visa-versa.
cab=can.
Repeat process until Islam is destroyed. They killed some 7,036 of us in Iraq and Afghan (no doubt a bunch were killed in accidents and training), We got 900,000 of them. An acceptable ratio.
Because the DC putsch flipped Trump the finger when he ordered them out. They refused by half, and the other half they reclassified as trainers and other such lunacy and didn’t change a thing.
Mattis the “lifelong bachelor” was behind this.
Why block the Syrians from regaining control of their own oil field?
If China took over US oil assets would you have a problem with that?
Also - the Syrians spent their blood and treasure evicting ISIS - the force of murderous terrorists that Obama created, armed and sicced on them. Isn't it about time that America f*cked off out of the country?
We could withdraw from all of our overseas military commitments and bring all our troops home, but that would mean building more defense for our own coasts, jettisoning a lot of environmental BS to restore our independence in energy and raw materials, and dramatically curtailing imports. This is all doable, but would first require removing almost all of the business and political elites: it would require regime change at home. Otherwise what we'll wind up with is the left and isolationist right combining to reduce our military position dramatically without any reduction in our commitments. This is a formula for disaster.
There’s a lot to say for the ‘flypaper’ model of Afghanistan and Iraq.
But Obama literally armed ISIS in the same way that Biden just armed the Taliban. In broad daylight, with captured weapons.
If the US keeps repeating THAT process, it won’t be Islam that is destroyed.
"The fertile Bekaa Valley in eastern Lebanon has long been notorious as one of the world’s major narcotics-growing regions, producing some of the finest quality cannabis, mostly processed into hashish. Today, the country is the third biggest producer in the world after Morocco and Afghanistan, according to the U.N."
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