How do you feel about the decision to pull American troops out of Syria?

It is a waste of lives,money and time being there.We or no one else will never stop them from fighting as history has shown.Hundreds of years of fighting each other.Many presidents have tried and failed as well as this president.Those people do not even like us.They like our money only.I say other countries should close their borders and keep them in their own countries and let them work things out.Just keep it from spreading.Why should our troops die for countries that hate us?

Mixed feelings. On one hand, I believe the same issues following Obama's withdrawl from Iraq probably will occur. On the other hand, what is the end game? How long do we stay there? The Middle East has been a black hole my entire life. Same with Afghanistan (probably worse because that's been a bottomless pit for armies for 2,500 years). What pisses me off is all of the political flip flopping. If Pres. Trump said he was going to surge Syria and send more troops, the same that think he's pulling out too early would be critical that he was staying. (and vice versa)

SGT Gunderson, I say with humor: you know better than to ask military personnel and veterans about "feelings".

That situation is complex. If ISIS is no longer a threat, then fine. I am not privy to that intel so I cannot say for sure. ISIS was our mess to clean up so I am cool with us being there for that. The Syrian Civil War is not our concern so we need to stay out of it. The issue is that the lines get blurred between the two.

I think generally speaking, we need to avoid prolonged foreign conflicts. I haven't seen any identifiable benefit to staying engaged this long. Maybe I just don't have access to that information, but from where I sit, we are just expending resources for no good reason. The other thing is, I think we need to get our own house in order before we start trying to get others' in order.

I'm a staunch supporter of President Trump, but I think he's wrong. SECDEF Mattis is very experienced and Trump should listen to him because he's hands down his best adviser.

Maybe we should let NATO to do some of the heavy lifting for a change.

Mixed. Stability in the region is a bit tenuous right now. I do think, however, that long term occupation in the Middle East needs to scale down. Syria is a civil war. I think we should support only.

We dropped the ball totally in the region. Even the Roman Empire crashed not from Western Barbarians but screwing around in the Middle East . We would have saved a lot of grief by stopping in Iraq after triumphantly rolling into Baghdad, Then telling the commanders of the 14 fully intact Iraqi divisions still left that they needed to take over , keep the infrastructure intact and then withdraw back to Kuwait with a reminder if they wanted to play games we can easily kick their ass again. We would have avoided the contempt bred for us by familiarity. We win battles well but we suck at making little images of ourselves all around the world.

Has anyone asked what the end game is? Funny, all we usually hear from the Left is “What’s our exit strategy?” They would be asking this sometimes even before we put the first pair of boots on the ground. I look at it this way, Syria doesn’t want us there. Syria is Iran’s lap dog and by extension, Russia’s. Regardless of what happens, Iran and Russia will back-up Assad with money and weapons. So we are fighting ISIS..yay. What happens when ISIS is defeated? We can’t stay. What ISIS remains is the problem of Syria (and the problem of Iran and Russia). As for the factions fighting to overthrow Assad...did Trump say anything about no longer supporting them? If he did, I missed that part. I did catch the part where he said we would use Iraq as a base for striking targets in Syria. Just how many troops did we have in Syria? Was 2000 it? That’s a lot fighting in another country that we are not allied with, don’t have any sort of agreement with but no where near enough to over throw it.

Now, unless the Left starts explaining WHY our troops should have stayed and what they want to see accomplished, I will go with Trump on this at this time.

We have never had anything to gain from the fight in Syria (or Iraq or any of the other Mideast countries) and 16 years of war is well beyond long enough. If we weren't going to finish it then we should have never started it.