The United States strategy in Syria has gone horribly off the rails, and staying in Syria for the foreseeable future will do nothing to stop the continuing threat of militant Islam, nor will it preserve U.S. interests in the region.
Currently, U.S. policy in Syria has been effectively delegated to Defense Secretary James Mattis, who is solely focused on defeating the scraps of ISIS in Syria and democracy-building inside the country.
NBC News reported Wednesday that Mattis and other Pentagon officials told the president that they want to see through the fight against ISIS in Syria and that a U.S. withdrawal from the country would jeopardize those gains.
Because of the current U.S. strategy in Syria that only focuses on ISIS, we are already ceding the region and the country to Russia, Iran, and Turkey.
Mattis, who supports closer engagement with Turkey at the expense of our Kurdish allies, has stated that he has no intention of changing his goal for Syria, so there's not much of a rationale behind the argument that the U.S. presence in the country must be maintained as a bulwark against Iran and Russia.
So what exactly is the U.S. mission in Syria, now that ISIS has been almost wholly obliterated?
If the U.S. is to stay in Syria, we must reshape our grand strategy and commit to a course change on how we fight the ideological war against militant Islam.
https://www.conservativereview.com/articles/trumps-instincts-right-syria-rethink-get/
Currently, U.S. policy in Syria has been effectively delegated to Defense Secretary James Mattis, who is solely focused on defeating the scraps of ISIS in Syria and democracy-building inside the country.
NBC News reported Wednesday that Mattis and other Pentagon officials told the president that they want to see through the fight against ISIS in Syria and that a U.S. withdrawal from the country would jeopardize those gains.
Because of the current U.S. strategy in Syria that only focuses on ISIS, we are already ceding the region and the country to Russia, Iran, and Turkey.
Mattis, who supports closer engagement with Turkey at the expense of our Kurdish allies, has stated that he has no intention of changing his goal for Syria, so there's not much of a rationale behind the argument that the U.S. presence in the country must be maintained as a bulwark against Iran and Russia.
So what exactly is the U.S. mission in Syria, now that ISIS has been almost wholly obliterated?
If the U.S. is to stay in Syria, we must reshape our grand strategy and commit to a course change on how we fight the ideological war against militant Islam.
https://www.conservativereview.com/articles/trumps-instincts-right-syria-rethink-get/
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