TRUMP PULLS TROOPS OUT OF SYRIA—GOOD MOVE!!

THE WAR HAWKS ON LEFT AND RIGHT ARE LIVID—TRUMP DECLARES A WAR ENDED!

NO MORE KILLING AND BEING KILLED FOR USA TROOPS IN SYRIA

The situation is Syria has stabilized.  Mr. Assad has finally taken nearly full control of western Syria with the help of Mr. Putin. The bombing and killing has abated.  ISIS the causus belli which ostensibly drew the USA  into Syria is defeated.   Mr. Obama and his State Department and Pentagon unwisely used ISIS as the reason to enter Syria without an invitation. Syria is in fact a sovereign nation which must invite a foreign force in—-and we had no invitation.  The Obama strategy from the beginning of the Syrian tragedy was —“dumb, destructive, counter productive  Bush-style regime change”.  From the first days of the uprisings Obama policies in Syria  prolonged and intensified the killing and devastation and tragedy there. .  Obama’s actions would have led to another failed state in the ME had not Mr. Putin intervened.  (Mr. Putin is the only chess player in the West—his contemporaries  are playing checkers).  Mr. Obama’s Syria policy was from the very beginning unrealistic, impractical, and poorly executed..  It was never going to come to fruition given the nature of the Syrian geography, and its ethnic and religion demography.

As it stands now..the USA has no national interests in Syria, and no rational reason to be there uninvited.  Recall that our troops are there on the basis of some ancient agreement passed immediately after the 9-11 tragedy.  They are in Syria without  a Congressional imprimatur.  That is another good reason to bring them home.  There is also the cost.  It’s costs us about $1 million dollars per trooper deployed abroad per year. Saving 15 to 20 million dollars annually is no bad thing.   Mr. Trump is saving money and lives in withdrawing them where they are not wanted and not needed.

Good

Next lets bring them home from Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Ethiopia, various states in Africa, and where ever else they are.  We can no longer put the massive financial burden of “peace keeping” and world dominanntion on the backs of the American taxpayer.  We apparently do not even have the will or resources to secure our own southern borde from invasion and incursion—yet we are off in the worlds hinterlands—wasting resources and destabilizing regions that are problbaly best left to their own devices.  .  What chutzpah the phony war hawks have to complain when Trump calls the troops home and ends a war. .