The state would still keep it up as a security apparatus

As the majority of states do

As they should, however, why bother having deployed troops if we won't act?

Well we are acting lol

How so?

They just don't tell you we are.

The entire point of our being out there

Is training these nontraditional forces

It was initially a coalition against ISIS, before that the taliban,

Before that it was work against Russia

Yeah, but now ISIS is gone.

So...what the fuck are we doing?

It isnt gone though

Its just no longer stable enough to pretend it's some standing army

With a nation

They're still fighting, then there is the fighting within Syria

Then this would be the best time to act.

Between the government and opposition

Its the worst time to act, Assad essentially won in Syria

The war is winding down

It wound down completely...then recently picked up.

Russia wont need to be there if we stop supporting random guerrilla fighters

All while we refuse to take sides.

Which we have

We still are.

At this rate, we may accidentally support ISIS.

We're supporting the kurds

The other factions failed

...and Turkey...

Which is why you saw ISIS get some of our materials

And we've always supported Turkey

Atleast in the setting of the cold war

For no good reason.

We want them as a NATO partner

They're always starting shit.

For our strategic positioning in the east

Fuck NATO.

We don't need NATO at all.

We use them as a base of operations against "Russian aggression"

And now terrorists

And I wouldn't be so sure.