I know all that, u_crank. And some of the points, especially the overstretching argument, I have given myself often enough. Even more, I have been against
any Western engagement in Syria, if you remember, whether American or European. Still, Trump is deceiving the public opinion when claiming that IS has been defeated. Its not even half-finished business. Its having helped to replace one horror with another. It was all started for wrong reasons, but this is what makes prematurely ending it now wrong once again.
Iraq: failure. Afghanistan failure. Now Syria:failure. The US seems to have the ambition to install itself as world champion of needless strategic defeats. All muscles, no brains.
In fact a fundamentalist organisation as horrific as Al Quaeda or IS is being established now - tolerated by the US, actively supported by US-"ally" Turkey.
Fan-tas-tic.
