Does anyone remember Syria?

I ask because we have troops fighting and dying in the country and there is NO interest by the media to cover.  Our troops deserve better.

But in case the reader has forgotten the armed conflict let me give them a reference for the education…..there is a beginning……

As the Syrian conflict enters its seventh year, more than 465,000 Syrians have been killed in the fighting, more than a million injured and over 12 million Syrians – half the country’s prewar population – have been displaced from their homes.

In 2011, what became known as the Arab Spring revolts toppled Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/05/syria-civil-war-explained-160505084119966.html

Now that article can bring the reader up to speed…..

Now that ISIS is on the run (so to speak) I ask the question along with others….why are we still there?

Congress refused to authorize American intervention in Syria in 2013. Still, we sent in Special Forces. Congress later authorized a smaller intervention against ISIS. The caliphate was smashed, after President Trump changed the rules of engagement, and the president claimed credit. Bashar al-Assad, backed by Russia, had crushed most of the rebel forces. All done, U.S. troops can come home, having not been authorized to carry out any other missions by the people through their representatives. Right?

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/455770/syria-war-us-involvement-not-necessary

Assad, Russia, Turkey and the US all have had a hand in the total destruction of Syria all in the name of fighting terrorism…..

The Donald Trump administration is planning to install a 30,000 strong armed “security force” in northern Syria along the borders with Turkey and Iraq. This presumably will tie together and support the remaining rag-tags of allegedly pro-democracy rebels and will fit in with existing and proposed U.S. bases. The maneuver is part of a broader plan to restructure Syria to suit the usual crop of neocon geniuses in Washington that have slithered their way back into the White House and National Security Council, to include renewed demands that the country’s President Bashar al-Assad “must go,” reiterated by Secretary of State Rex Tillerson last Wednesday. He said “But let us be clear: The United States will maintain a military presence in Syria, focused on ensuring ISIS cannot re-emerge.” Tillerson also claimed that remaining in Syria would prevent Iran from “reinforcing” its position inside Syria and would enable the eventual ouster of al-Assad, but he has also denied that Washington was creating a border force at all, yet another indication of the dysfunction in the White House.

http://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/destroying-syria/

Making the world a safer place….one war at a time.