Donald Trump Is Pulling Out Of Syria

[Angrboda]

Trump's only concern is to distract the public and manufacture a win on a campaign promise because he knows his wall is simply not going to happen.

[The Grand Nudger]

  If I could have my way I would remove troops from Afghanistan and Korea.  I would also consider a reduction in Okinawa.  There are scores of bases of varying sizes in Africa and Europe that should also be abandoned.

A good portion of our unproductive deployments would have made a hell of a difference if they'd been redirected to Syria.

Global force for good..and all that noise.

[Amarok]

Unless of course Elon Musk, the political left, and all the climate change alarmists are all wrong and we really do need the oil...

 
...you mean the crushing majority of scientists?  The people best qualified to examine the issue?  All of them are 'alarmists'?

Well my friend he needs some way to make this about the "evil left" no matter how unrelated and frankly absurd it is .

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All the noise about ISIS and humanitarian efforts has always just been a pretense. We're only there for oil. ISIS will be around for a long time because they're fanatics. Let someone else keep them in check for a while. The only question we should be concerned with is whether or not that oil is worth all the aggravation. If the goal is to use less oil, pollute less, and save the planet from global warming (or whatever) then pulling out of Syria would seem to be a step in the right direction.

Unless of course Elon Musk, the political left, and all the climate change alarmists are all wrong and we really do need the oil...

Based on 2015 production statistics, Syria produced 30K barrels/day (ranked 66th), the U.S. produced 9.41M barrels/day (ranked 3rd).  I have seen recent article claiming that the U.S. is now the number one oil producing nation.  The U.S. is most assuredly not in Syria for the oil.

And that was in 2015 after years of war I can't imagine there production has gone up much as for America it's at a peak of oil production not seen since the 70's

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It's only 2000 troops, meh.

You wouldn't say " meh" were you one of those 2000....

Of course it not just the troops it's all the people who support the troops

[The Grand Nudger]

Fracking, man.  Fracking freed us up to sell shitloads of crude. That and the growth of renewables, ironically.

Fun fact, every frontline combatant has at least a half dozen in support...and that's not counting all the people who support them, making and moving the shit required. Every frontliner wants to go home, and as happy as it sounds when that happens..it amounts to unemployment for the rest of the lot.

[Amarok]

Fracking, man.  Fracking freed us up to sell shitloads of crude.  That and the growth of renewables, ironically.

Of course at a risk

[The Grand Nudger]

Risk is one word for it.  Known damage is more like, lol. 

[Amarok]

It's a shame that we've decided to give up where we should persist, and persist where there is nothing to be gained.  Decisions like these shame the uniform.

This also true . ISIS is not beaten and to those who say let someone else deal with it you'll eat those words one day .

[Pat Mustard]

the political left, and all the climate change alarmists are all wrong and we really do need the oil...

I don't know what you're smoking, but it's already too late. Your brain is permanently destroyed.

[Amarok]

Fracking, man.  Fracking freed us up to sell shitloads of crude.  That and the growth of renewables, ironically.

Fun fact, every frontline combatant has at least a half dozen in support...and that's not counting all the people who support them, making and moving the shit required.  Every frontliner wants to go home, and as happy as it sounds when that happens..it amounts to unemployment for the rest of the lot.

Indeed a military deployment is an industrial complex

[The Grand Nudger]

Yup, we've gotta do it, the only choices we have are where...and for what.