Agreed!
Why are we still there?
with no real mandate now that ISIS has been greatly diminished if not defeated.. maybe someone is missing its ISIS tools and now trying to use al Qaeda as allies in the cause
Someone has convinced someone that the best US policy is to to take down the vilified secular Assad, who is seen as “ too close” to Iran and Russia and to let Sunni extremist factions aligned with AlQaeda and competing radicals to tear apart and battle out some kind of new Sunni dominated government for Syria - since it worked so well in Libya (/sarc)
Surely our military presence in Syria can make the Russians withdraw from their naval base and the entire region as we encourage one terrorist faction after another to take up US weapons against Assad under glorious armies with “ Free” and “ “ democratic’ “ in their names and to invite muslim jihadis from all over the former Russian republics to join in tearing apart Syria and what remains of the non- Israeli middle east ... flooding Europe with war weary angry muslim “ migrants”
Oh and our “ friends” the Kurds - if you like your Kurdistan you can keep your Kurdistan.... ,after you help us to kill Assad, promise to fight As our proxies vs Iran, and destroy Syria of course