Pentagon officials have been
pretty clear about their intention of keeping troops in Iraq more or less
forever. The plans for Syria, however, have been far less public, mostly owing
to the fact that US troops are there without the approval of the Syrian government.
The
Kurdish YPG, however, appears to be privy to US intentions on the matter,and
spokesman Talal Silo claims that he US has a “strategy policy” committing them
to keep military forces in northern Syria “for decades to come.”
The
expectation here is that US forces are to be deployed inside the Kurdish
autonomous region of Rojava, though this is obviously predicated on the Kurds
keeping the autonomous region beyond the war itself, something they haven’t
negotiated with anyone else, and which even the US is officially “opposed” to,
preferring Syria to have a strong centralized government.
Yet
the reality is that a strong, centralized government in Syria is almost certain
to reject the idea of an open-ended US military presence. The Kurdish YPG may
be comfortable with such a hosting deal both to keep US arms flowing in and to
keep the Turkish military out, but the Assad government has made clear they
don’t consider the US welcome, and there’s little sign that the post-war
government is going to be so dramatically changed as to reverse that view.
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