Syria is not the issue. It's a coincidental part of the news report.
Neither is the Performance and Heroism of our Troops in Desert Storm, to Whom I say, 'Well Done and Thank You' including You @txradioguy.
Actually if Bush 41 had driven on to Baghdad we wouldn't have had to go back in 12 years later to finish off Saddam.
But that's not all of it...again after we beat Saddam the first time...we had a Liberal anti-war anti-military President occupy the Oval Office.
He did little if anything to enforce the conditions of the Iraqi surrender and subsequent cease fire. So Saddam was able to rebuild...wage a proxy war with the Kurds...circumvent U.N. sanctions to sell oil and harbor terrorists. If Billy Jeff had been more interested in doing his job instead of doing Monica we night not have had to clean up his mess in Iraq nor would we have ever spent 12 years hunting for Osama bin Laden.
But Victory was Declared without destroying the enemies' will to resist us. Into that void grew ISIS.
Again not true.
Actually the 2007 surge broke the back of al Qaeda in Iraq and sent them scurrying. Obama came in and screwed up what he deemed as a "stupid war" started pulling out troops equipment and support sets the Iraqi's needed to continue stability operations...and on top of it left the U.S. and Iraq without a SOFA agreement.
We didn't cause the rise of Daesh. They were formed as a splinter group of al Qaeda...radicals who were kicked out of AQ because they were deemed too radical for even al Qaeda. They were more radical than the radicals.
They wouldn't have if our Politicians had had the stones to finish the job. Scum like ISIS don't operate in a vacuum. They need support from friends and families.
As long as we have anti-war anti-military types and their offspring infesting the halls of congress we will fight a war on two fronts. Our military leadership is so scared of it's own shadow right now the Commandant of West Point doesn't even have the spine to control the rising tide of leftist radicalism within his own institution.
We're sacking commanders for allegedly calling someone "darling".
Patton is rolling over in his grave right now.