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"We've informed the Russians where we're at ... (they) tell us they've informed the Syrians, and I'd just say that we will defend ourselves if we feel threatened," recently appointed US commander of American forces in Iraq and Syria Lt. Gen. Stephen Townsend said in a telephone interview with CNN on Saturday.
The US-led coalition had to order up its planes stationed near the northeastern Syrian city of Hasakah after two Syrian Su-24 jets dropped bombs "dangerously near" the US forces positions on Thursday, Pentagon spokesman Captain Jeff Davis told reporters shortly after the incident.
Comment: Let's remember the US was not invited by the Syrian government. Syrian jets are flying in their own country trying to defend themselves but the US has the audacity to tell them they can't do that and uses their top of the line F-22 Raptor fighter jets to reinforce that position.
Comment: The US has become embarrassing. The Syrian jets had already been and gone by the time they got there. Why don't they just admit defeat and go home?