Not Escalating at All

With Gaza brewing up the United States decides to launch air strikes in Syria, because air strikes are the answer to everything.

I do not think that this will be conducive to deescalation:

The U.S. military conducted airstrikes on two sites in eastern Syria associated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and “affiliated groups” after attacks on U.S. personnel there and in neighboring Iraq, the Pentagon said late Thursday.

Officials said the strikes were conducted by F-15 and F-16 fighter jets that dropped precision munitions on two facilities storing ammunition and weapons near the town of Bukamal. The airstrikes amplified a long-running feud between the United States and Iran at a moment of extreme tension in the Middle East, with the renewed conflict between U.S. ally Israel and Iran-backed Hamas in the Gaza Strip fueling concern that violence will spread.

On Friday, the Pentagon said in a statement that both facilities were destroyed and that U.S. military officials “currently assess there were no casualties in the strikes.”

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Asked whether the airstrikes announced Thursday could result in additional violence, the defense official said, “That would be a decision made in Tehran.”

“Our desire,” the official added, “is for Iran’s most senior leaders to direct their proxies and militias to cease these attacks on U.S. personnel in Iraq and Syria.”

You know, the people in Syria need no encouragement to attack US forces (illegally) in Syria.

Maintaining this occupation is not in the interest of the region or the US.  It serves to encourage and create more Islamic extremists in the region.