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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (131955)	3/11/2017 6:33:18 PM
From: Elroy Jetson	Respond to of 218665

Of course the US military is using actual tanks and other military equipment in Syria. You thought the Pentagon has been firing nothing but press releases in Syria since November 2016? ISIS/Daesh, which the media has also called Al Qaeda in Iraq, admits they've lost their remaining "Caliphate" in Mosul and Raqqa and have ordered their followers back to the desert from where they began their initial attack on the cities. The problem going forward is dealing with ISIL troops in the desert regions. The former Saddamists who initially started ISIS have been killed and replaced with fighters from Pakistan and other East Asia nations, particularly Russian speaking East Asians who appear to be receiving support from Russia. Russia holds 1/3 of Syria through Bashir Assad and they appear to have co-opted what remains of ISIL for future needs. Syria is now Balkanized with the US military supporting Kurdish forces, the Turkish military supporting fighters from former anti-Assad groups targeted by Russia. The Shia governments of Iraq and Iran have attacked these Sunni regions of Syria with Sunni troops (having learned from prior experience that Iraqi and Iranian Shia troops were not welcomed as liberators). There's now effectively an autonomous Kurdish state in Turkey, Iraq and Syria, and I believe the US intends to continue support for the Kurdish and Yazdi nations as a check on various Islamic groups. Needless to say the US and Kurds would prefer to see the remaining ISIS troops in the desert killed. It's possible Trump had a secret agreement with Putin to leave the Russian speaking ISIS troops alone, in which case it's no surprise Putin's media outlets are now going crazy complaining vigorously now since they've spent so much time and money grooming the current Russian-speaking ISIS commanders and feel the Trump administration is now double-crossing Putin as troops from the US, Turkey and Iraq pursue ISIS in the desert. I'm sure Trump's Defense Secretary James "Mad Dog" Mattis has kept Trump informed of the progress against ISIS. But it's possible Mattis has kept Trump informed with written reports, knowing Trump doesn't read well and so reads very little of the documents which cross his desk.