[Chad_the_Impaler]

Why is no one considering the “rebuilding” costs that are going to be needed for Syria? This would be a big plus for us if Russia and Turkey are stuck with the bill.

[Sequoyah101]

Are all Russian suits made by the Bolshoi Brothers? I guess the only dye they have is black?

To each his own.

[MNJohnnie]

Eaxactly the people who should of been doing it from the start before Obama-Clinton-McCain decided to play the “Arab Spring” regime change game

Why do you think in Fall-Winter 2015 Debates all the Democrat, and Republican candidates other then Trump were trying to out macho each other about imposing a No Fly Zone over Syria to stop Russia supporting Assad?

We HAD NOT BUSINESS BEING IN SYRIA. It has been a Russian client state since the 1950s. Obama/Clinton/ and the rest of the DC Swamp were playing stupid “Emperor of Earth’ games with American lives.

[MNJohnnie]

Eaxactly the people who should of been doing it from the start before Obama-Clinton-McCain decided to play the “Arab Spring” regime change game

Why do you think in Fall-Winter 2015 Debates all the Democrat, and Republican candidates other then Trump were trying to out macho each other about imposing a No Fly Zone over Syria to stop Russia supporting Assad?

We HAD NOT BUSINESS BEING IN SYRIA. It has been a Russian client state since the 1950s. Obama/Clinton/ and the rest of the DC Swamp were playing stupid “Emperor of Earth’ games with American lives.

[ClearCase_guy]

And if there’s a real winner here out of all the various interests competing in that region, it certainly looks like it’s the Russians.

Darn that Trump! [/s]

We don't need to be over there. It's good that we have largely pulled out. And Russia isn't going to take over the world so I don't see their presence as a problem. It's likely a problem for Europe if Russia gains more control of the world's oil. But Europe is also not my concern. Globalists can worry about distant continents. I'm a Nationalist and I think America is doing just fine. We have plenty of oil and we don't need more wars.

[butlerweave]

Peace on you and you and you . Hey , not from up there you don’t ,LOL

[wiseprince]

So...the author expected to own Northern Syria at the cost of 1k (50) soldiers? For my understanding, what does owning Northern Syria actually mean? What do your fellow countrymen get out of this great investment? Syria is a country. Its leader is Assad. If the Kurds in the North of Syria don’t accept that then that’s their fight. Maybe they need to pick up arms or maybe they can Kexit (doesn’t seem to work for the UK but who knows). Assad, as the leader of Syria, decides to share his North with Russia and Turkey, that’s on him. The Obama admin tried to take him own and were not able to. That’s not on Trump. The idea was ridiculous on its face at the very beginning.

[Repealthe17thAmendment]

This is good news for America, and confirmation of Trump’s policy. Expect a total news blackout.

[elpadre]

“..The only reason nobody is fighting right now is that Russia is effectively in control of the entire northern border of Syria..”

The Russia and Syrian relationship goes back to 1946 when they signed a Treaty. Syria is essentially a client state of Russia and has been seventy-ish years. They have advisors embedded in the Syrian military, they have the only Russian Mediterranean port for the Russian navy in Syria. When they say Russia is in control it is the same as Syrian control. In Syria, they are one and the same.

Two million Syrian refugees currently in Turkey are being re-settled in the newly acquired buffer zone - Syrians resettled in Syria. Obama brought in thousands of Syrian refugees to the US. Maybe we can make a deal to resettle them in the “zone.”

[wastedyears]

tHaNkS oBaMa

[jimmygrace]

We’re developing a 1000 mile cannon, for crying out loud! We don’t need to station our troops in the middle of a place where just about everyone wants you dead. Having bases in Israel, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey is enough.

[entropy12]

Wonderful news! US taxpayers no longer footing the bill for military operations in Syria.

Now how about dismantling all 800 other US military installations spread around the world? But if we did that the chickenhawks will have a cow.

[lastchance]

I do have to ask “Is it possible that the presence of US troops in a warring region actually contributes to the continuation of conflict?”

[Chauncey Gardiner]

These were terrorist Kurds previously known as the PKK, labeled the SDF, but were known for slaughtering Christians, Jews and others, as well as doing the bidding of the intenational deep state. Good riddance.

[wildcard_redneck]

Given the cartel violence in Mexico and the sabotage and destabilization efforts of the US federal courts we should emulate Turkey and seize 20 miles of Mexican territory along our southern border to resettle illegal aliens and to create a defense in depth that is totally controlled by the executive branch.

[Karliner]

Every time peace is declared in the ME a new war breaks out.

[airborne]

Russia must have forgotten the lessons of Afghanistan.

[JudgemAll]

Funny, when America is there, Turkey is all for war on the Kurds, but Russians come and he sucks Putin.

[Trumpisourlastchance]

This should have happened long ago. NeoCons & NeoLibs stopped it.

[Eddie01]

But what sort of peace has been achieved?

This is what happens when your too stupid to survive planet Earth.