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My concern is that might be exactly what the “independent fighters” want us to do?
We say we are leaving and not going to be involved in the matter then drop a MOAB on our way out? The optics of that course of action are not good.
Leaving the fight completely as opposed to LEADING the effort to prevent instability and leadership voids being filled by ISIS or ISIS sympathizers??
Nah - when you have a bunch of stone-age thugs with weapons, you’re gonna get some of this crap.
Meanwhile, President Trump is making good on another part of his promise to get our warriors out of harms way in wars/skirmishes we don’t need to be in.
When Bush started arming the Kurds, it was because they also wanted to kill ISIS folks and they did much of the fighting because their agenda paralleled ours on that issue.
We never signed a long-term pact/deal with them to keep up with our support - they’ve been fighting many battles for a couple centuries and it makes no sense to keep supplying them for the next 200 years.