President Trump just announced via tweet that the ISIS Caliphate is defeated and he is pulling all US troops out of Syria.
donald-trump-syria-The MSM is highly critical, denouncing Trump for his poor judgement. Some are expressing fear that if Trump withdraws US troops from Syria, then next thing he'll be withdrawing US troops from Afghanistan.
Personally I have mixed feelings about it. It would be nice if the defeat of the Caliphate would lead to peace in Syria, but there is zero chance of that. Turkey, the Syrian government, the Kurdish insurgents, Iran, Hezbollah and Russia all have military forces in Syria and future conflict is inevitable.
The war in Syria only started because Obama sent the CIA in to train Islamist insurgents to fight the Assad regime, and that idiotic policy backfired when the Islamist insurgents turned into ISIS and set up a Caliphate in Syria and invaded Iraq. Trump has "fixed" all of that, but he can't fix everything.
Personally, I don't think its a bad idea to declare victory in Syria and pull our troops out. The Caliphate is destroyed. Thats a victory of a sort and a reasonable exit point for US forces. We certainly don't want to get bogged down for 17 years fighting insurgents like we have in Afghanistan.
Cheers!