knutsen south all the louder if he stays well he might have to explain why american troops are being shot at by nato allies the tough choice. every new life of a doorstop could be so complicated meanwhile kurds have been rallying outside a u.s. military base in northeastern syria. look at these. demonstrators decried turkey's plans to invade the area and called on the americans to prevent the operation author of inside syria we said told us washington is losing its grip over the region. everyone is calculating that given the domestic pressure to do something about the syrian refugees he's going to flip the situation in a moment of u.s. weakness and send in his troops to wipe out the air forces the us is. showing itself to be rather impotent. imperialist power in decline in the middle east at the moment and what's happening in syria and iraq and iran for that matter all signs of that it has tremendous military power has tremendous economic power but it doesn't know how to use it effectively there's no question that the impeachment proceedings and the general domestic turmoil in the un