It's ridiculous for us to commit a single additional soldier to any conflict in the Middle East without other NATO supporters playing a more active role. That being said, 300 soldiers doesn't unnerve me way too much, but if our presence continues to grow in Syria, I think we'll be looking at YET another quagmire. The most frustrating part of all of this is that the Administration (both this one and the last) is happy to dispense soldiers pretty much on a whim, because the constitutional provisions that put war into the hands of congress are all but dismantled at this point. I'd really like to see THAT tendency reversed more than anything else. There's no need for popular support toward or against a war at this point: since the Iraq war, the administrative branch has simply had a free pass to use the military at their own will. Mounting military authority in the administrative branch will quickly become a problem we can't solve, if we let it keep growing.