"Deployment of Special Operations Forces to Syria Another Low-Risk, High-reward Move by Team Obama"

[Jnew28]

What are your thoughts on this piece?

http://stupidpartymathvmyth.com/1/post/2015/11/deployment-of-special-operations-forces-to-syria-another-low-risk-high-reward-move-by-team-obama.html

By the way, I want to thank the DU community for reading these posts and responding with insightful replies.

[Human101948]

1. Anyone who believes they will not be involved in firefights is naive...

This is an absolute repeat of the way we got into Vietnam.

[MowCowWhoHow III]

2. Move away from the hyperdimensional clusterfuck

...this means that most of the American troops’ efforts—and possibly all—will initially be collaborating with Syria’s Kurdish forces, who control most of Syria’s northernmost regions and whose zones of control border ISIS...

Those same Kurds that Turkey is now bombing the fuck out off?

Erdogan says Turkey may hit U.S.-backed Syrian Kurds to block advance

Turkey will "do what is necessary" to prevent U.S.-allied Syrian Kurdish rebels from declaring autonomy in the town of Tel Abyad near the Turkish border, including conducting further military operations, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday.

NATO member Turkey is part of the U.S.-led coalition fighting Islamic State militants in Syria, but it sees advances by autonomy-seeking Kurds, led by the Democratic Union Party (PYD), as a threat to its own national security, fearing they could stoke separatism among Turkish Kurds.

Turkish jets recently hit the Syrian Kurds' armed People's Protection Units (YPG) targets twice after they defied Ankara and crossed west of the Euphrates River.

"This was a warning. 'Pull yourself together. If you try to do this elsewhere - Turkey doesn't need permission from anyone - we will do what is necessary,'" Erdogan said, signaling he could defy Washington's demand that Ankara avoid hitting Syrian Kurds and focus its military might on Islamic State targets.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/28/us-mideast-crisis-turkey-kurds-idUSKCN0SM2V620151028

[haikugal]

3. Never get into a land war in Asia!

Low risk to whom?

[Octafish]

4. Dunno, but I do know who gets the high reward.

"Money trumps peace." -- Pretzeldent George W Bush, Feb. 14, 2007. NONE of the reporters present at the press conference had the guts to ask a follow-up. I guess they were afraid of Caligula, Jr. Besides a few DUers, about the only person I know who did try to bring it to our nation's attention was Cindy Sheehan.

[haikugal]

5. Oh how I hate that man.....

[KG]

6. what possible reward

[MisterP]

7. that's how we GOT ISIS: we thought that with the Bible-humpers and cowboys out

all our humanitarian interventions would go right--the Surge 2009, OBL and Libya 2011, Syria 2013

just quick in-and-out wet work, "lightweight" commando raids, and proxy forces to keep our hands out of it

and every damn move has created IS, leaving us on AQ's side in Syria

the whole "the stupid party caused our problems" shtick is what's keeping us in the hole