The U.S. is building a buffer zone along the entire border between Iraq and Syria to prevent "the Shiite Crescent" between Iran/Iraq/Syria/Lebanon and to isolate Syria. Just a couple days ago the U.S. military created it's second illegal base in southern Syria (in addition to the illegal base at the al tanf border crossing). Syrian troops actually would like to work with the U.S. to get rid of ISIS and al qaeda: Syrian troops are no threat and have no desire to be a threat to the US. Iraq's shiite 'Popular Mobilization Forces' and the Syrian government want to re-open the Damascus-Baghdad highway for trade and commerce between their countries. Iraq's Popular Mobilization Forces fought long and hard to liberate Mosul and now that that fight is winding down they want this linkage with Syria and vice versa. The U.S. is forbidding this and apparently have ordered the Kurds to also forbid this as the Kurd's are also forbidding the two country's governments from being able to link up in the north.
The U.S. military has no legal right to do this. This is:
- illegal under U.S. law and the U.S. Constitution
- illegal under international law
The U.S. military has no right to murder the armed forces of a sovereign nation that is no threat whatsoever to the U.S. citizenry; the U.S. military has no right to establish military bases in a sovereign country that is no threat to the U.S. citizenry without that sovereign country's permission.
