You are absolutely right. Assad was such a peach when they were allowing terrorists to rest and refit in Syria, and they were coming back into Iraq with weapons and funding. I really enjoyed my time in Iraq with an Iranian proxy state arming terrorists to attack us......well before Emperor 0 ever announced his candidacy. Every Iraqi in Mosul was trying to alert us that the "chemyawi" (chemical weapons) was on an Iraqi military convoy to Syria.
I'm not advocating going to war with another country, and certainly not going to war with Russia over some islamic shithole. 0 was, is, and always will be a feckless idiot. He probably thought he'd be lauded as some kind of hero if "democracy" came to Syria.
There's a new Sheriff in town and the SDF are the least bad out of the three major factions, ISIS, SDF, and the regime. Which, Kurds make up a major portion of the SDF and is lead by the YPG -the peshmerga fought on our side during the Gulf War (we established a no fly zone to protect them), and then again during OIF I....I know, they were part of our defensive lines in 2003. We actually went to relieve them at a hospital they were protecting from Saddam's Fadahayin.
We have a long history of protecting the Kurds, and they have a long history of fighting on our side....even after we bailed in the Gulf War.
To the folks on here claiming we created ISIS to overthrow Asad, bullshit.
Abu Musab Al Zarqawi left Afghanistan (before the U.S. ever went into Iraq), and then sought to create an insurgency against the U.S.....again prior to the invasion of Iraq. He established an Al Qa'ida in Iraq stronghold.
He was 'reprimanded' by Ayman Al Zawhiri (then Al Qa'ida main #2; now the #1) for his ruthless oppression of Iraqi locals and furthering of sectarian strife.
After his death, AQI went through some transition, and in 2006 merged with multiple other Sunni islamic terror groups to form The Islamic State of Iraq.
The group later went under ground (with much of it in Syria) and decided to wait for the Feckless 0ne to withdrawal U.S. troops and create a security vacuum. Once instability struck Syria, the group merged and morphed again, this time fully organized by a former Iraqi Ba'athist intelligence officer. It declared itself a caliphate as the Islamic State of Iraq al Sham (Syria) and took over large swaths of Iraq and Syria.
ISIS broke with Al Qa'iadi (and is still following the Al Zarqawi school of thought and methods), and AQ loyalists went with Al Nusrah Front.
W lacked the political will to destroy them when he had the chance, choosing to not conduct major urban operations in Iraq after Operation Phantom Fury. Once everything calmed in Al Anbar province in early 2007, no military commander wanted to rock the boat; large numbers of U.S. casualties was deemed politically untenable....so everyone pretended the problem didn't exist. More or less, they didn't attack us, and we didn't attack them.
0 was a bumbling fool and all the more happy to spike the football that he "got us out of Iraq." Worse he tried to jump in front of the parade marching toward Assad. That plan failed when many of the groups they sponsored surrendered or defected to Al Nusrah Front. However, the YPG and other groups who are interested in ousting ISIS, al Qa'ida, AND Asad are what now makes up the SDF.
To paraphrase Regan, I'm not saying there are a lot of ignorant people on here, but so much of what they know just isn't so. A little bit of research goes a long way.
Nothing you’ve posted here is unknown. I just don’t see how taking out legally elected governments or fighting a war on their territory is the way to go.
Look into the Free Syria Army.