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At least one of the two sought to leave Syria (though they still also bombed it, because of course they did). Though when it comes to the MENA region I think I agree, both are as vile and deranged as it gets.
"Leaving" doesn't mean much when there are CIA backed militant groups, Special Forces, and private military contractors that can all do the same thing as the soldiers that were redeployed somewhere else.
On one hand; agreed. On the other- those US troops illegally stationed in Syria are there for multiple reasons, not all of which their "non-state actor" counterparts can fulfill- and one of those reasons, is to be a tripwire force, whose presence and any casualties can then be used as an excuse to manufacture consent for greater military escalations up to and including open war.
Once the US troops are out, Syria can begin the (still difficult) process of weeding out the US proxies.
At the moment, there aren't enough reserve troops or political will to fully engage if the tripwire force was ... tripped?
Best we can manage at the moment is just some long range missile strikes or small scale carpet bombing.
But yeah, fair point. (Though I suppose you could replace the soldiers with NGO's doing "humanitarian aid" and wait for them to start getting attacked as the same function)