I wish you would have made a comment. I like your insights. I don’t know what to say about this.
At this point I am confused as to all the parties involved in this war. I am not sure of our objective and I cannot comment on whether it is important enough being there.
At one point I wanted us to give some security to the kurds even if it was air cover. but the arguments against that here convinced me that although they were the ones who kept up the fight against isis we do not owe them that kind of support.
I still go back and forth on that one. Perhaps we need a presence there to make sure there was no resurgence of isis? Are we there to keep Russia in check? I know none of the answers
I trust President Trump to handle this appropriately.
Trump briefed this the other night after meeting the Iraqi president
I can’t say I’m proud of this. Die hard neocons in our pentagon and agencies have nailed Trump to this policy. At least he got our troops off the border and not in between Turkey, Syria and the Kurds. Giving the kurds the oilfields under US protection, having Assad accept allowing Kurds some autonomy to lay down arms against the Syrian govt in return for protection from Turkey, was probably part of a deal worked out in a third country