On Sat, 15 Apr 2017 14:47:04 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

You won't like this, but I believe it. We haven't fought a "war" since
WWII that politics didn't over-ride military objectives.

When you are in civil wars, you have political decisions being made.
We stay in denial about what the fighting and dying is about because
there is no real military objective.
Syria is an excellent example. What is the strategic military
objective there?

Defeat ISIS?
ISIS is an idea, not an army and they are everywhere

Take down Assad?
Not really. We don't even have a plan for a successor, that is Putin's
problem with it.

Liberate the Kurds?
Turkey is against that idea.

Tell me again, why are we in Syria?

That really goes double for Afghanistan. We should have got out of
there when Delta ran Bin Laden off into Pakistan at Tora Bora.