Syria: Another roach motel for American war party

Does even one American in hundred, make that one in a thousand, feel we must be involved in the Syrian civil war? I doubt it. But the U.S. military, from Commander In Chief Donald Trump on down, certainly do. The Syrian civil war has been raging since 2011. Under President Obama, the U.S. entered the civil war in 2014, ostensibly to defeat ISIS there but primarily to oust Syrian president Bashar Assad, a cog in the Iranian sphere of influence we’ve been trying to destroy since the Iranian Revolution of 1979. We provided financial, military and logistical support, including Special Forces, to rebel factions we claimed were moderate. They weren’t. Much of our hardware wound up with some of terrorist groups we claimed we could control. Had we stayed out, Assad would have prevailed early on, preventing tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of needless deaths and many of the 3.8 million refugees. Russia jumped in the following year, eventually tipping the balance for an Assad victory, tho fighting continues.

But still the U.S. didn’t leave. Now we stayed to protect our Kurdish allies whose real agenda was to carve out a homeland in the northeast portion of war torn Syria, something we have no business supporting. President Trump was right to vacate this mission as it had no connection to American security interests whatsoever. Great, all U.S. troops coming out? Not so fast. Trump said we’d leave a residual force to protect Syria oil wells from its rightful owner Syria. Hey, America deserved that oil as a spoil of our spoiled venture to oust Assad.

A year later, U.S. forces are still playing a near deadly cat and mouse game with Russian forces there to prop up their neighbor and ally Assad. Just last month, U.S. and Russian military vehicles collided, injuring 7 GI’s. This follows several near altercations between U.S. and Russian personnel. Instead of pulling out those troops serving no legitimate purpose, U.S. officials decided to up the ante, sending in 6 Bradley Fighting Vehicles along with a hundred troops for a 90 day deployment.

That’s how the U.S. treats the sovereign country of Syria; a roach motel where U.S. soldiers go in, but never fully come out.