Personally, I think it is just distracting. It is not why I personally visit an aviation forum. But you may be correct. Dunno

I changed my vote over there to "shut it down" so as not to distract from the aviation forums, and referred people here for political discussion.  I got a "like" for doing that in a previous post in the same thread.

Well, it was a thousand people - soldiers or Marines, I don't know which - in northern Syria.  I think calling that a handful is misleading at best.  The troops were withdrawn after the President spoke with Erdogan on the phone, not because Turkey was attacking.  Show of Force?  No, Show of Fear.

Russia has moved in and taken over Syria.  The Kurds are now aligned with them.  Turkey is killing civilians.  At least a thousand ISIS fighters are free.  US reputation in the region has fallen more than it ever did because of Obama's apology tour.

This is the price of "no more our boys killed."  Worth it?  You decide.

The President is a coward who lacks the backbone to be Commander in Chief.

My problem with responding to this is that I halfway agree with you.  I regret that ISIS prisoners have been freed.  I regret that civilians are being murdered.  I hate that Kurdish soldiers that we have supported in the past are now being attacked by Turkey.

Are we to defend the Turks forever?  Alliances in the Middle East change with the sands. 

The only way I could completely agree with you is if we isolated a position and made the military commitment to see it through to the end. 

I'm sick of us having ROEs of not shooting unless shot at.  I'm sick of all the hand wringing if they use civilians as shields.  And I'm sick of liberals bitching about anything Trump does, even if it follows their long held position

Perhaps instead of putting up a wall with Mexico, we should annex Mexico (the same way Russia would) and put up a wall around the Middle East instead.