Why do we have soldiers in that area?
Oil.
Oil and maybe natural drugs.
> Why do we have soldiers in that area? <
We have vital interests there! We must defend those interests, or go broke trying.
And please ignore this famous quote:
“He who defends everything defends nothing.”
Frederick the Great
We’re there to safeguard the oil from ISIS reconquest. The Syrian government has shown many times they don’t have the forces or logistics to hold the oil refineries. Too much tribal and factional power play for the oil revenue. If you leave it there the most brutal and ruthless faction will take it, IOW ISIS.
Yeah, why? For God’s sake why are we always getting in the middle of these 7th. century barbarians and their constant, never ending sectarian blood feuds? Enough. Let them kill each, it’s all they’re good for.
Just what I was thinking. We didn’t elect Hillary to avoid a war with Assad. What the flying F are US troops doing there?
And why are they driving through Syrian army checkpoints?
Right. It is a sovereign country. USA, Turkey get the hell out. Russia can stay because Syria has invited them in to protect them.