By declaring victory over ISIS and leaving Syria Trump puts a period on
the end of a shameful period of US history. And the loss to the empire
will not be easily overcome. Syria represented the worst kind of
imperial over reach. And in some ways it was a quagmire the US and its
allies could never win because the assets needed to take it were never
available. And those assets were political. The appetite for endless war
had been spent with Obama’s election, no less Trump’s.
