[agere_contra]

They are also preventing Syria from regaining control of the only oil field in Syria

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?

[pierrem15]

The Assad regime is a murderous dictatorship whose killing of Islamists was wholly accidental to its pursuit of murdering as many Syrians as were necessary for maintaining itself in power.

If it found supporting ISIS to be politically useful, it would do so in a minute.

As for the oil field we do what we do because it's useful militarily and denies support to the Assad regime which has allied itself with our enemies Iran and Russia.

I find the notion that if we acted "on principle" and gave up the oil field then the Chinese would be persuaded to behave better highly dubious.