U.S. withdrawal from #Syria means #Russia, Assad, and #Iran will kill all of the rebels, #jihadi and non-jihadi, and restore #Assad to power. We can’t announce it, but this is now our policy. I think it’s probably the right one, but the neocons are up in arms of course.
There are two arguments against: 1) ISIS will rise again. 2) Our buddies, the Kurds will be slaughtered.
ISIS will not rise again because Russia, Iran, Assad, and Turkey don’t like them any more than we do.
The Kurds will not be slaughtered because President Trump and Erdogan have already made a deal, and the Saudis are sending troops to support them.
There is no outcome in Syria that we can engineer that is better than the restoration of Assad under Russian control. A stable democracy is not on the menu.