No, the jet was endangering the lives of AMERICAN advisors that are providing assistance on the ground.
I served as a combat advisor they bring a value added benefit to the indigenous forces they mentor and train. This concept allows training and our fire power to be utilized most effectively. It is cheaper than sending thousands of forces to do the fighting for them.
American servicemen are also in other continents around the world defending our security regardless of your knowledge and understanding of the issues and campaigns they are conducting. Their only request from folks like you is not to make matters worse for them over there.
The tides of history clearly reside against those who appeased or turn in fear from our adversaries. Chamberlain learned this lesson in WWII with Hitler. Thank God there was a Winston Churchill.
The guy on the battlefield called to sweat and shed blood is not a war monger, on the contrary, it is he who will suffer the pains of war and therefore, we warriors who have served in combat on foreign lands stand tall when the time for sternness arises.
No, American cannot afford to have an adversary like Russia force us to abandon our support or our forces. China has declared the South China Sea their territory and demanded that our ships leave the sea lanes to the. We have partnerships with Japan, Philippines, and South Korea. Using your gauge, we abandon the merchant sea lanes of the South China Seas and retreat.
Our military experiences demonstrate to us that short term gains in facing a bully, rarely produces the long term objectives desired.
Russia has nukes and so do we. Neither would use them at this point. Now North Korea is a different matter.
There is another good example of failed leadership that now has produced a lethal dictatorship that soon will be able to strike at the home of the US. Allowing situations to metastasize before action is taken because of fear or overly refrain will come back to bite you in a real way some day.
“the jet was endangering the lives of AMERICAN advisors that are providing assistance on the ground.”
AMERICAN advisors that are providing assistance on the ground
TO WHOM?
The South China Sea situation with China is about shipping and Maritime law. It is without a doubt a clear and present danger to U.S. shipping. IMO a bigger threat than Syria.
Syria on the other hand is about a gas pipeline for Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey. It serves no strategic purpose for the U.S. We already have many bases U.S. bases all around the Middle East. Most not even listed. If the dictators in the Middle East want a war over this, then fine let them fight it out with their own people.
Our country is over 20 Trillion dollars in debt. We can’t afford another major war. Much less a war against Russia to a country like Syria that is not a threat to the United States. We need to be focus on China and North Korea that are the real threats. Finally, I don’t want to gamble a nuclear conflict over Syria. It’s not worth it!
I’m well aware of the history of U.S. advisors in combat theaters. I don’t agree with your point that it has worked out so well. Perhaps because it has a lot of politics like in Vietnam and Korea?