Trump is trying to build a 30,000 man army of anti-Assad Kurds there to prevent ISIS from making a comeback (and as an irritant to Syria) but Turkey sees those Kurds as terrorists and is already moving her forces up to the Syrian border and bombing and shelling across the line. Syria, in the meantime, is claiming that any Turkish planes crossing the border will be shot down. If a three sided war breaks out there, the American "training and support" cadres we are moving in to back up the Kurds will be caught in the middle, and we may wind up in a war fighting both a NATO ally, AND Syrian and Russian forces. Not that the Russians will even need to fight, just the idea of a US-Turkey conflict has probably got Putin giggling himself to sleep every night.

If we pull out now, the Kurds, which have been doing all our fighting for us in Iraq and Syria and the only people in that part of the world that actually like us, will be massacred. Of course, we have a habit of abandoning our friends when things get hot (Saigon, Bay of Pigs), no one will be too surprised. If we stay, we have a good chance of losing all our people there, or at the very least, having to pull them out precipitously, abandoning our friends to an ugly fate ("Get all the palefaces out of there.") And you know Trump will not be bringing the Kurds here for shelter as refugees, they are Muslims, and you know how his base feels about them.

Yeah, I agree, Obama misjudged the situation in Syria and got sand kicked in his face. But Trump didn't learn a thing from that debacle, and I think he's about to get his tit caught in a wringer. Big time.

You Conservatives love tough guys "who don't take no shit". But those are just the guys who tend to bite off more than they can chew and wind up tripping on their dicks, if you don't mind me mixing my metaphors.

Hitler got away with his tough guy, don't take no shit shtick in Europe, but eventually it caught up with him and he wound up overextended, humiliated, and crushed. Then his country was simultaneously raped from both East and West. Bluster can only get you so far, and I think Trump has already used all of his up.

In WESTPAC, the Chinese are doing very little to help us there, (they are cheating like mad fuckers)and I think Trump has already paid a big economic(trade) and military (S China Sea) price for what little he got. As for the S Koreans, they are going to fold on us and leave us holding the bag. We don't have the suds on the peninsula (less than 30,000 men, of which only a fraction are combat troops) to fight the N unless we use nukes, and that would be catastrophic to everyone in the S as well. The S can and will fight for self-preservation, but not to back up any half-assed Trump tough guy plan. They are covering their own ass, regardless of what they are saying publicly, because they know The Americans simply cannot be counted on. Especially the ones with big mouths. Trump ain't no Truman. They're afraid he will fight to the last Korean, and then go home.

Maybe I've got it figured all wrong, but at least I am thinking real hard about it. I'll bet my left nut the Trumpster isn't. His type thinks thinking is for sissies.