Who is saying it’s right to leave a warzone if there is no oil now?
Sounds like just sour grapes about the oil fields - oh that’s just sour crude oil anyway.
“If anything, the Syrian Kurds prefer the deployment of Syrian government forces along the Turkish border to deter Ankara.”
That did not work very well for them in Afrin.
Leaving that territory to either Turkey or Assad would be a loss for the USA and our allies. Turkey supports the jihadis and Assad will let Iran run up to the Mediterranean and Israeli border.
There may be a plan to leave the Kurds in control East of the Euphrates, without 2,000 Americans there. I hope so.
I liked this editorial.
It come from a man who knows the geopolitical situation in Syria, and who the players are, and has a fairly reliable sense of “what would happen, if...” And he concludes that very little would change as a result of our boots leaving.
I sense that Trump’s purposes have been realized, i.e., dealing a major hurt to ISIS, ergo, pull back and watch from just outside theater.