Quote Originally Posted by Wales-Bales View Post
How can halting a complex civil war that also has external participants be viewed as a failure?
Hold on, Yank troops are in Syria illegally. I'm sure you know that. What I don't get is why you're defending blatant criminality.

“A purpose of those [US] forces, working with the SDF, is to deny access to those oil fields by ISIS and others who may benefit from revenues that could be earned,” said Defense Secretary Mark Esper.

'Others' means the Syrian government of course. Don and his handlers don't want the Syrians to have access to so much as a cupful of oil from their own oil fields or anywhere else.