"Does anyone in the government have to explain why US troops are engaging in armed hostilities anymore? Could any US official with a straight face go before the American public and explain what the purpose of this conflict in Syria supposedly is

The idea that US troops are routinely having to act in "self-defense" while they occupy parts of Syria -- a country on the other side of the world, on an indefinite mission that virtually no one can even explain -- is one of the more brazen perversions of language you'll ever see"