Speaking to his base yesterday Trump claimed the US would be "coming out of Syria very soon" and it was time to let "the other people take care of it now."

While that arguably sounds like a very good thing (unless you are a Kurd, in which case it's yet another US stab in the back), we can recall Trump said the same things, only much more clearly and more often about Afghanistan only to end up authorizing another Pentagon surge in that country.

In fact in Syria itself has cruise missile bombed the Syrian government — a line that even Obama did not cross. Even more importantly he has handed over the running the war so that know whether US strikes against Syrian army in its own country and how often is completely in the hands of the military and often at a very low rank level, sometimes by the trigger men themselves. (The shooting down the Syrian Su-22 over central Syria last year was supposedly simply taken by the US pilot who fired the missile.)