Suddenly Republicans, Democrats, the media, the think tanks, and the war industry all discovered and quickly became experts on "the Kurds," who we were told were an "ally" being sent to their slaughter by an ignorant President Trump.

But it was all just another bipartisan ploy to keep the "forever war" gravy train rolling through the Beltway.

Interventionists will do anything to prevent US troops from ever coming home, and their favorite tactic is promoting "mission creep." As President Trump Tweeted, we were told in 2014 by President Obama that the US military would go into Syria for just 30 days to save the Yazidi minority that they claimed were threatened. Then that mission crept into "we must fight ISIS" and so the US military continued to illegally occupy and bomb Syria for five more years.

Even though it was the Syrian army with its Russian and Iranian allies that did the bulk of the fighting against al-Qaeda and ISIS in Syria, President Trump took credit and called for the troops to come home. But when the military comes home, the military-industrial-Congressional-media complex loses its cash cow, so a new rationale had to be invented.