These zones once created, will include
US armed forces on the ground, literally occupying seized Syrian
territory cleared by proxies including Kurdish groups and bands of Al
Qaeda fighters in the north, and foreign terrorist militias operating
along the Jordanian-Syrian border in the south. Brookings even admits
that many of these zones would be created by extremists, but that
“ideological purity” wound “no longer be quite as high of a bar.
The US assumes that once this territory
is seized and US troops stationed there, the Syrian Arab Army will not
dare attack in fear of provoking a direct US military response against
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