Chris, the article makes the point there are 60,000 US troops in the Middle East.
Some came out of Syria.
Big deal.
Your McPaper fear mongering of the dreaded return of ISIS hasnt happened, and, if it did, is a carrier battle group strike away from being just another puff of smoke in a bad neighborhood.
The Kurds are no angels, The Turks have good reason for the hatred, if not the methodology. Try to get over the notion there are good guys and bad guys in the Middle East, and we should be best buddies with anybody.
Best,
Ted
No, the article you cited does not make that point. Below is the language from the article from which you based your assumption:
"The Defense Department's annual budget requests fill in some of the blanks regarding Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria as the documents weigh budget requests against previous and anticipated troop levels. The latest budget request, published in March 2019, estimated the average number of troops between October 2018 and September 2019 in Afghanistan (12,000), Iraq and Syria (both 5,800), and support troops nearby (60,000)."
It is clear that these numbers are estimates used for budgetary considerations and are not concrete. Further it does not indicate that there are 60,000 troops in the middle east, but rather "nearby" Where is nearby? It doesn't say. That is kind of ambiguous isn't it? Do you know what ambiguous even means Ms. Peep?
Sure, we have troops in the middle east, but they are not fighting ISIS as we pulled out and tossed our allies under the bus. BTW, you don't know sh!t about the Kurds. Otherwise you would not be parroting exactly what trump said. The guy you have the temerity to call stupid figured out that on you very quickly. Seems you only had a mirror to peer into with that statement.
I'd grade this effort as a D, only because you benefit from a curve.
