Has anyone caught a news media story about how our comrades who are still deployed in the Middle East are doing?

We are doing okay...It is not terrible, just a little more issues here and there compared to other deploys. All and all its same stuff different day.

I believe that we are involved in Syria on clandestine missions. The Taliban and ISIS are experiencing a falling out. Very few opponents want to take us on in conventional warfare, instead relying on asymmetrical warfare.

Well, they are still over there, in a place where they shouldn’t be, doing things for a region of people that does not value their presence. Sometimes, they die for those same people, all to prove that being over there has not solved, is not solving, and will never, in the long term, solve much of anything for those people whose value system is simply uncivilized, and will never be anything more.