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by pnw_hazor 2440 days ago
The YPG is marxist offshoot of the PKK. Turkey (an actual member of NATO) will never voluntarily let them establish an independent homeland in Syria.

The way it is working out now is the best anyone, Americans at least, could hope for. Let the regional powers that have actual national interest sort it out.

If ISIS comes back, the US can come back if needed.

As a vet, with a son who was an Army Ranger and a daughter who is an Army aviator, 60 troops sounds like too many to me.