[VanDeKoik]

That tiny number of troops were not the lynchpin of anything over there.

Only a damn fool is looking at this as the equivalent of leaving west Germany in 1946 or something.

[sport]

The problem is that the damn fools are legion. In the U.S.of A. they are as common as nitrogen.

[seowulf]

That tiny number of troops were not the lynchpin of anything over there.

They are there as a tripwire, in other words bait, just to make it easier for us to go back in force.

How would you like to be carrying a rifle in Syria knowing you were there to be the worm on a hook?