We shouldn't be putting our people at risk standing between crazy Syria and trigger-happy Israel.

"The U.S. plans for the presence in the Syrian capital, which have not previously been reported, would be a sign of Syria's strategic realignment with the U.S. following the fall last year of longtime leader Bashar al-Assad, an ally of Iran."

WTF

ridiculous that you call Israel "trigger happy"

were they "trigger happy" on October 6 2023?!?

was the United States "trigger happy" when they literally invaded Afghanistan in 2001?

That's your big concern--my choice of words--rather than worrying about putting more US troops at risk in the ME? Really?.

"Trump administration officials are fuming over Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's "madman'' trigger-happy behavior even as the president plays nice with him, a new report says."

WH

LMCane said:

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ridiculous that you call Israel "trigger happy"

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Oh brother. At some pt we need accountability from Israel and acknowledgement that our funding of their forever wars can (and should) stop. We can't be big brother forever, always stepping in when they run off.

It certainly makes me discount everything you say.

LankiestAg said:

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LMCane said:

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ridiculous that you call Israel "trigger happy"

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Oh brother. At some pt we need accountability from Israel and acknowledgement that our funding of their forever wars can (and should) stop. We can't be big brother forever, always stepping in when they run off.

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Stepping in? We PAID the Palestinians to make terror tunnels. And then we stopped Israel from completing the job.

****ing hell. Stop being world police.

aTmAg said:

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Stepping in? We PAID the Palestinians to make terror tunnels. And then we stopped Israel from completing the job.

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Over 300 billion of tax payer dollars to Israel btw

And Trump wonders why his approval rating is at an all-time low

When you are still the global super power snd deriving all the benefits that comes with that status, you have to maintain that status. That unfortunately includes demonstrating the ability to project that power to Allies and enemies. I am not fond of getting into needless wars but being in position to prevent them, and the associated direct and indirect costs isn't necessarily a bad thing.

CDUB98 said:

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****ing hell. Stop being world police.

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Succinct, accurate and eloquent as per usual, CDUB98.

Putting US troops in Syria is wrong. Calling Israel trigger happy after they have 1400 of their people murdered almost two years ago is wrong. Both can be true.

We have no ****ing business in Syria. Israel is our middle east support.

All can be true.

I guess y'all don't realize, or didn't bother reading all of the report, that we have had troops in Syria for many years now. This is no different than other US troops stationed in other countries who are strategic allies.

Colonel Kurtz said:

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And Trump wonders why his approval rating is at an all-time low

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Does he really wonder this? Source?

LankiestAg said:

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aTmAg said:

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Stepping in? We PAID the Palestinians to make terror tunnels. And then we stopped Israel from completing the job.

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Over 300 billion of tax payer dollars to Israel btw

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And we get lots of intel and other services for that. Unlike the Palestinians

Edit: and according to Grok, we have paid them $175B since 1948. That's $2.3B per year. Compared to ~$14.7B per year for CIA alone. For the best intel in the middle east by far, while we have supposedly ZERO sources in the entire middle east thanks to the Afghanistan pullout.

Deus Vult said:

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I guess y'all don't realize, or didn't bother reading all of the report, that we have had troops in Syria for many years now. This is no different than other US troops stationed in other countries who are strategic allies.

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Yeah, we never left from what I recall. Probably just moving troops from an existing area to Damascus.

Not really a fan of this considering the new leader is Al Qaeda and they've been murdering Christians.

Deus Vult said:

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I guess y'all don't realize, or didn't bother reading all of the report, that we have had troops in Syria for many years now. This is no different than other US troops stationed in other countries who are strategic allies.

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Syria isn't an ally of ours, much less a strategic one.

This deployment will be in addition to those other troops and will be in amongst the Damascus population, not out patrolling the border in the middle of nowhere.

We were supposedly looking to draw down our years of presence in Syria/Iraq, not further increase our ME risk.

74OA said:

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That's your big concern--my choice of words--rather than putting more US troops at risk in the ME? Really?

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When your choice of words is both idiotic and inaccurate, it deserves a big concern.

Why wouldn't it?

How do you feel about the respective foreign policies of Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barak Obama, and Donald Trump, each of which stabbed to death 15 people while attending college?

Answer that question.

91AggieLawyer said:

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74OA said:

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That's your big concern--my choice of words--rather than putting more US troops at risk in the ME? Really?

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When your choice of words is both idiotic and inaccurate, it deserves a big concern.

Why wouldn't it?

How do you feel about the respective foreign policies of Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barak Obama, and Donald Trump, each of which stabbed to death 15 people while attending college?

Answer that question.

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I don't give a flying **** about that nonsense. I care about putting more of our troops at risk in the ME right now. Why on earth you aren't concerned about that is beyond me.

And yet you are notably absent from the Venezuela thread.

Damascus is the oldest city in the world and is prophesied to be completely destroyed in the end times.

5Amp said:

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Damascus is the oldest city in the world and is prophesied to be completely destroyed in the end times.

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America is great at destroying cities, maybe America is just fulfilling the prophesy.

Should be in Chicago instead

LankiestAg said:

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aTmAg said:

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Stepping in? We PAID the Palestinians to make terror tunnels. And then we stopped Israel from completing the job.

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Over 300 billion of tax payer dollars to Israel btw

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more bs.

since 1948- nearly EIGHTY YEARS

the USA has provided In non-inflation-adjusted dollars, the total is $174 billion in bilateral assistance and missile defense funding as of May 2025.

how much did the USA pay for the Marshall Plan? how much did the USA spend in Vietnam? or Korea? or Japan?

Total US welfare and anti-poverty spending since 1965 has exceeded $30 TRILLION

aTmAg said:

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And yet you are notably absent from the Venezuela thread.

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And yet you are notably absent from taking a position about putting more US troops at risk in the Middle East.

91AggieLawyer said:

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74OA said:

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That's your big concern--my choice of words--rather than putting more US troops at risk in the ME? Really?

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When your choice of words is both idiotic and inaccurate, it deserves a big concern.

Why wouldn't it?

How do you feel about the respective foreign policies of Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barak Obama, and Donald Trump, each of which stabbed to death 15 people while attending college?

Answer that question.

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Rephrase please the italics? Say What?!?

74OA said:

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We shouldn't be putting our people at risk standing between crazy Syria and trigger-happy Israel.

"The U.S. plans for the presence in the Syrian capital, which have not previously been reported, would be a sign of Syria's strategic realignment with the U.S. following the fall last year of longtime leader Bashar al-Assad, an ally of Iran."

WTF

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Some of us remember when the Obama Administration tried to convince Israel to return the Golan Heights to Syria.

Same POTUS who drew his red line with Assad, then ran for a place to hide when Assad laughed at him and dared him to do something about it.

Same POTUS who damn near handed ISIS the entire region.

We give $300,000,000,000 to Israel?

Money well spent when compared to the trillions spent correcting Soetoro's errors in the region.

Israel takes out the Islamo-Nazi trash Democrats have been funding for 12 of the last 16 years.

All we had to do?

Drop a massive bomb on a nuclear facility in a country who has been asking for it since 1979.

Nice epistle, but what does any of that have to do with putting even more US troops at risk in the Middle East right now?

74OA said:

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Nice epistle, but what does any of that have to do with putting even more US troops at risk in the Middle East right now?

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I'm not the one bringing "trigger happy" Israel into the American presence in Syria. That would be you.

We've been in that country for a long time. Israel had nothing to do with it.

Why are we there?



Ask Mr. Junior Varsity.

74OA said:

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Nice epistle, but what does any of that have to do with putting even more US troops at risk in the Middle East right now?

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Do you know how many thousands of troops we have already in The Middle East today?

Mas89 said:

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74OA said:

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Nice epistle, but what does any of that have to do with putting even more US troops at risk in the Middle East right now?

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Do you know how many thousands of troops we have already in The Middle East today?

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I guess 74OA missed this part of the story...

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The U.S. already has troops stationed in northeastern Syria, as part of a decade-long effort to help a Kurdish-led force there combat Islamic State. In April, the Pentagon said it would halve the number of troops there to 1,000.

Sharaa has said any U.S. troop presence should be agreed with the new Syrian state. Syria is set to imminently join the U.S.-led global anti-ISIS coalition, U.S. and Syrian officials say.

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President Trump yet again trying to fix the problems left to him by Democrats.

Mas89 said:

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74OA said:

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Nice epistle, but what does any of that have to do with putting even more US troops at risk in the Middle East right now?

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Do you know how many thousands of troops we have already in The Middle East today?

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And so you're good with adding even more troops, this time into Syria's capitol, of all places?

Henriques said:

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Mas89 said:

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74OA said:

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Nice epistle, but what does any of that have to do with putting even more US troops at risk in the Middle East right now?

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Do you know how many thousands of troops we have already in The Middle East today?

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I guess 74OA missed this part of the story...

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The U.S. already has troops stationed in northeastern Syria, as part of a decade-long effort to help a Kurdish-led force there combat Islamic State. In April, the Pentagon said it would halve the number of troops there to 1,000.

Sharaa has said any U.S. troop presence should be agreed with the new Syrian state. Syria is set to imminently join the U.S.-led global anti-ISIS coalition, U.S. and Syrian officials say.

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President Trump yet again trying to fix the problems left to him by Democrats.

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Fix by sending even more US troops into that mess? Isn't that for locals to take on? After so many years, when will we ever get out of there?

74OA said:

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Henriques said:

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Mas89 said:

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74OA said:

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Nice epistle, but what does any of that have to do with putting even more US troops at risk in the Middle East right now?

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Do you know how many thousands of troops we have already in The Middle East today?

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I guess 74OA missed this part of the story...

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The U.S. already has troops stationed in northeastern Syria, as part of a decade-long effort to help a Kurdish-led force there combat Islamic State. In April, the Pentagon said it would halve the number of troops there to 1,000.

Sharaa has said any U.S. troop presence should be agreed with the new Syrian state. Syria is set to imminently join the U.S.-led global anti-ISIS coalition, U.S. and Syrian officials say.

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President Trump yet again trying to fix the problems left to him by Democrats.

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Fix by sending even more US troops into that mess? Isn't that for locals to take on? After so many years, how will we ever get out of there?

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By stabilizing the new government, allowing it to take care of the internal problems within the nation rather than your own military personnel.

Looks like the approach will end up being something similar to what we did assisting the Filipinos against the Abu Sayyaf Group in OEF-P.

An agreement evolving into a FID approach is far better than we have been doing over there. We help that government take care of its own internal defense...and we no longer have to keep some of our strongest military personnel assets in harms way in an operational area with many different parties in conflict.

It's shortsighted to let China fill the void.