“Why do we still have troops in Syria? They should not have been there in the first place.”
No. US foreign policy will go after terrorists, no matter where they are, if possible. So, we are rightfully in Syria, destroying ISIS.
ISIS is critically decimated but the job is not over, yet. US troops are there in a very limited capacity, mostly special operations and some air power. Trump is doing a great job. It is the Russians who violated the agreed to demarcation line and put Trump to the test. Russia’s former Spetznaz Wagner group contractors paid the price for that Putin miscalculation.
We’re not destroying ISIS anymore. We’re helping traitors who still strive to violently overthrow their government. Let Assad decide who is and isn’t in Syrian territory.