Pulling the troops out of Syria - promise made; promise kept

Quick, state the mission of US forces in Syria.  (Play Jeopardy music.) My guess is that few if any can, with any degree of certainty, come close. 

Caligula, D.C. ruling class swells are aghast that PDJT has the nerve to keep another campaign promise and bring American troops home from Syria.  The first question to these nervous Nellies is the same as above.  My guess is that the swells are as clueless as the rest of us as to what the mission of the US forces in Syria is today.

If they stumble upon it and state it as: ”To keep bad things from happening in our absence” then we can move onto other questions.  But first we have to note, that is an incredibly open ended bottomless pit commitment. 

So Mr. & Mrs. Smartypants, what is the desired end state for Syria?  The original mission - destruction of the ISIS caliphate?  Dare I say “mission accomplished.” To keep it bay in the future?  That requires a nearly constant presence for...well forever.  

What is the long-term national interest of the US in Syria and its ongoing civil war?  Some idiot might say, “Promote Middle East stability.”  Okay, while we’re at it maybe we’ll find Bigfoot, Santa Clause and Easter Bunny. We can act as a counter-weight to Iran.  Hmm, maybe we could be better counter-weight against Iran if we just sunk their navy and shut down their capacity to refine oil.

Well we need to protect our allies, the Kurds.  Maybe we can provide the Kurds sufficient arms to allow them to protest themselves.  Maybe we can assure economic disaster on anyone (Turkey) that messes with them. Maybe we can understand that the grievances between the Kurds and the Turks goes back generations and our commitment to “protecting them” will last generations into the future, if that’s the mission.  Maybe we’ll learn the Kurds use us as much as we use them.  If the Kurds are our allies, the old adage “The enemy of my enemy is my friend” comes to mind.  Let's not sugar coat it.  The Kurds, like everyone in the Middle East, are duplicitous as hell, and they are in addition commie loving “allies.”  

If this is a long-term national security issue, what we need to do is establish a rapid reaction force afloat in the region or some other force projection option callable of quickly establishing an American presence wherever needed.  Why do we always have to have boots on the ground acting as targets and a source of propaganda for militant Islam?  We have many tools of national power.  Why is the military the only one the nervous Nellies want to employ in this case?

Everyone involved in this - the Turks, the Rooskies, the Iranians, the Syrians and Kurds – are all playing diplomatic/military/propaganda triple bank shots to advance their own cause and hurt us.  None give a crapola about America or the American serviceman past what we can do for them.  Once that is accomplished they will drop us like a hot rock and call us satan in the process.

Lex’s bottom line: I’m all for killing Islamo Terror Fascists wherever they pop their ignorant trapped in the 12^th century heads up.  It’d better if our “allies” in the region did it.  None are committed to killing ITF excrement heads.  So until they are, we are now energy independent.  F- ‘em all.      

Today’s JG rant

Re: Headline “Quagmire for Trump deepens” of Oct 7, 2019.

Quagmire?  Like the quagmire the media found itself in when it grossly mischaracterized every aspect of the whistleblower’s complaint? 

Or the quagmire Joe Biden and his son now find themselves in?  Whose political career is closer to being over as a result of the whistleblower, Joe Biden’s or PDJT’s?

Or the quagmire Adam Schiff now finds himself in after a raft load of lies have finally caught up with him?

Or the quagmire Nancy Pelosi finds herself in after lying about hearing of the accusations “from open sources” and then lied about Schiff’s fantastical made up reading of the transcript as being accurate?

Or the quagmire the Democratic Party finds itself in with its nominees?   The front runner has been exposed for the lying, thieving corruptocrat that he is.  The runner up has told more tall tales about herself than you’ll find in a book of Chinese folklore.  Bernie’s on a gurney etc. etc.

PDJT has already exposed three top Democrats as liars and since the scandal is about corruption, surely Hillary Clinton is bound to be involved in some aspect. 

Trump quagmire?  Ha!  You gotta be kidding yourself.  PDJT thrives on this stuff.  We've seen this cartoon before.  PDJT will be standing amid scores of Democrat carcasses when this is over.  The MSM will lay flattened under another Acme anvil intended for PDJT, and it'll be hilarious.