The aim should be to make it so the locals can replace the troops.
That's exactly what the British were doing in Afghanistan and it worked to great effect
The US started doing the same after many years and again pulled out too early.
We should just never go in
You can't just enter a place, occupy it and throw equipment around and expect it to work
So how long should they have stayed in Syria?
The Americans should have stayed in Kurdistan, not Syria for at least another 4-5 years
Cause locals still get frustrated that America is still around and think we can manage shit
There was limited troops there as is
No, the Kurds NEEDED the US troops.
Yeah
The US troops were the thing keeping the Turks from invading
As they're doing now after the US left.
And keeping the Russians from bombing the Kurds
Since they don't want to risk an international incident, killing US troops.
So the US troops simply being there, kept the fighting down.
They should have stayed until the Kurds had to power to self-defend themselves from the Turks on their Northern border.
Funnily enough the US fucked the Kurds by encouraging them to remove their fortifications on the Turkish border.
Then just left.
The kurds don't look like they'll ever have the power for self-defense against a bigger country like Turkey any decade soon
They would have, with the US backing
I can go into reasons as to why Kurdistan is beneficial to the US
If you want as well
Kurds are gone
Soon to be gone
You know what's even more beneficial to the US
Not giving a shit
It objectively isn't @Hexidecimark
But I wouldn't expect you to understand that.
You're an isolationist afterall.
Maybe they should have not given a shit before they started eating
I already know Kurds are beneficial. It just seems America's always in that "damned if u do, damned if u don't" position
They aren't dammed if they kept troops there though
That's the thing..
What do you mean? @RAM II
The only people opposed to it are Turkey and idiot isolationists.
Dardanelles are also beneficial.
there are more reasons than just whether Kurds are useful or not
Turkey being an adversary (Soon to be enemy) and the isolationists being idiots
The Turks are gone buddy @leavethisbotnet
