President Trump has instructed military leaders to prepare to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria, but has not set a date for them to do so, according to a senior administration official.
In a meeting with top national security officials Tuesday, Trump stressed that U.S. troops can be involved in current training tasks for local forces to ensure security in areas liberated from the Islamic State, the official said.
But the president said that the U.S. mission would not extend beyond the destruction of the Islamic State, and that he expects other countries, particularly wealthy Arab states in the region, to pick up the task of paying for reconstruction of stabilized areas, including sending their own troops, if necessary.
Don't get me wrong, I want American troops to be brought home as soon as possible.
However we sent troops there to fight ISIS and to keep Assad from murdering his own people with poison gas.
When Russia entered the fray they started bombing opponents of Assad, as well as civilian targets such as hospitals. (Source.)
The Russians are not there to help the Syrian people, they are there to protect Putin's buddy Assad and help him to oppress the Syrian people.
Once American troops are out of the way, that will be significantly easier.
As I said before, this is Donald Trump openly doing Vladimir Putin's bidding right out in the open, for all the world to see.
Source https://ift.tt/2EnibIk
