John frickin Bolton never met a military adventure he didn’t like. Next thing we know he’ll be laying out reasons why it needs to be escalated even more. We need to leave yesterday. No conditions or asterisks or any other bs. No more military adventurism and world policing.
Totally agree with you about Bolton, emotionally agree with you on much of the rest. But the fact of the matter is that area of the Mid-East is in total turmoil and near anarachy (except where forces opposed to USA like Iran and Russia have rolled in) because of the foolish blunders we made under GWB. We really should fixed what we broke. More importantly-this time at least-we should stand by our allies (the Kurds) instead of abandoning them again. That is if we ever want allies again.
BTW Turkey already announced they were sending in forces to Syria to go after the Kurds and The Donald gave them his blessing. Is Trump reversing on that now as well?
I'm afraid this policy will stay in place until Trump changes his mind again-it could be in five minutes or never, who knows.
If nothing else Trump has given great encouragement to the Taliban, ISIS and the like-whose main strategy is to keep bleeding the US until we decide the cost is too great to stay. Trump's clearly indicated he wants out of both places ASAP. Something like the Marines barrack bombing in Lebanon (under St. Ronald's term) should seal the deal for ISIS.