THE MESS IN SYRIA—DONT MAKE IT WORSE—GET OUT!

I read today—sadly with no surprise—that the Pentagon is resisting the President’s wishes regarding Syria.  He had wisely noted his intention to “get out of Syria, very soon”.  The deep state, the neocons, the military industrial complex (John McCain and his ilk)  and all the other forces that simply love war, killing innocents, and selling armaments are opposed to that very logical intention of Mr. Trump.  
The fact is that the US presence in eastern Syria was and remains a mistake.  We have already done so much damage to Syria—in our idiotic Obama policy of helping to generate and sustain the Civil War—that it is now apparent to everyone that it is time that we bring our troops home, and focus on rebuilding America and American infrastructure.  Let’s leave the rebuilding of Syria to the Syrians.

The phony propaganda  games that the Pentagon, CIA, the neocons, war hawks in DC play is all too apparent for anyone who reads the news from that part of the world.  These war mongers are opposed to a US troop pull out since they are opposed to ending any military conflicts.   They oppose the sensible, humane, reunification and pacification of Syria.  In the face of the blatant failure of pro-insurgency policies by Obama and others they continue to encourage chaos and instability.   US policy is stuck on preventing the Russians and the Iranians from the sustainig the influence they won by defeating ISIS and other terrorist groups as they supported the Assad regime in that war torn nation.

 Those are the facts.  We supported the losing side.  The Russians and the Iranians supported the legitimate government of Syria (whether we like Assad  policies or not).  Let us face the facts.   No amount of USA money spent, troops deployed,  or “involvement” will change the facts that “our side” lost.  We have no viable “allies” in eastern Syria.  The rag tag group of “moderate” terrorists we supported are all dead or have joined up with ISIS and are breathing their last.  The Kurds are soon to be defeated by the Turkish forces which rightly see them as an existential threat to Turkey.

Making the phony claim that we are attempting to “contain” ISIS after it is apparent that they are fully defeated does not stand up to facts on the ground.  And preventing the Assad forces from reclaiming the eastern part of the ancient territory of Syria is simply counter productive. It only exacerbates the mistakes we made in encouraging and supporting the  insurgency.  It retards the stabilization of that part of the Middle East and continues an economiccay damaging low grade insurgency that will only keep the region in chaos and cost more lives.  From the beginning it was plain that there was no reasonable alternative to Assad.

Now is the time to pack up and go home.  (Where we have many of our own problems to solve.). Mr. Trump has a refreshing way of pushing aside the BS, tossing out the window dressing, and stating the unvarnished truth.  He is right: “We should get our troops out “very soon”.