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Donald Trump’s Syria Policy Is Strategically Wise — and Thoroughly Unconstitutional
Looks like we're pulling out of Syria. ("Looks like...")

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-u...-idUSKBN1OI1JC

One of the things I remember Pompeo pushing when he was at the CIA was building a network of contractors to replace actual US government employees, in covert, pseudo-military operations.

(Putin does something similar in the Ukraine, where Russian army regulars moonlight as Russian speaking separatists, mistakenly shooting down civilian airliners, etc, and the Crimea takeover was done by "unmarked soldiers speaking Russian".)