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Remember we have few friends in the area. We also, have many enemies. We are in there at the request of people like Israel, the curds, and Saudi Arabia. But so called allies like Turkey and the EU are difficult to depend on. We should leave when we can.

Nobody on this sight should be advocating to stay in Syria. The public does not understand the issues. Its a game of spy vs. spy. While Fox may report that its ISIS (the bad guys) vs. America (the good guys). Thats far from the truth. There is no black and white, only shades of gray. Don’t let the military vendors get you thinking that this is good vs. evil. They only want to sell weapons. And frankly if the military could chose, fortify the border vs. Syria, I am on the side of troups defending our border.

"We should leave when we can."

I am in agreement with this. We should leave when our stated objectives are accomplished.

1. When ISIS is wiped out. From what I've read there are still a couple thousand ISIS fighters holed up in Syria.

2. After these negotiations are concluded and Iran withdraws its troops and we get concrete assurances from Turkey and Assad that our allies the Kurds are not retaliated against. They should be aware that we are still close by and able to strike to assist our Kurdish allies.

After these things happen, then we should get out of Syria. I don't understand why this rush to pull 2000 troops out of Syria. We don't have body bags coming home everyday like the height of the Iraq war. For the whole Syrian operation, the best I have found is that there have been a total of 5 deaths in Syria, 2 of them non combat related. In other words, those 2 could have happened during a training exercise in the states. There has been one this year.