Two soldiers and a civilian interpreter were killed in Syria, the New York Times reports. Trump blamed ISIS and vowed to retaliate. But right now he’s at the Army-Navy college football game, so maybe he won’t screw up for a few more hours. Hegseth is probably planning World War III already, though. Note that the Times is reporting the assailant was a lone gunman.
In Trump’s first term 65 U.S. troops were killed, mostly in Afghanistan, so maybe he’ll fall back on pretending today’s deaths didn’t happen, as before. But back then Trump had people around him who reigned in him a tad. For most of Trump’s first term Jim Mattis was SecDef, although the last year there was a revolving door of five different acting SecDefs. A mess.
Fingers crossed Trump and Hegseth don’t start something stupid in Syria.
IIRC, Trump kinda sorta tried for a little while to get [all?] US troops out of Syria, but lost interest when the Pentagon (backed by entire US Foreign Policy 'consensus') dragged its feet.
US forces should never have been in Syria anyway. 'Opposing ISIS' was always a BS excuse to cover up the real mission: helping Israel get rid of Assad, to end Syrian support for Hezbollah.
I'm sorry that more Americans got killed in places they shouldn't have been. Maybe we can get the rest out now.
I think the first step would be to stop Trump and Kegsbreath from doing anything stupid, period.