To be 100% accurate, the American involvement in Syria's Civil War was always a shit show.
There's the time we spent hundreds of millions of dollars building a rebel army, only to see that rebel army immediately turn their weapons over to Al Qaeda and throw away their uniforms.
Then there's the time a "moderate" rebel group that we'd been arming was so proud of cutting the head off of an 11-year-old boy that they put it on the Internet to share.
The time we bombed the Syrian army while they were fighting ISIS.
There's the time we dropped white phosphorus on a major city. A war crime.
The time we blew up a mosque full of civilians. A war crime.
The time the UN literally begged us to stop killing civilians.
The time a Pentagon-sponsored rebel group went to war with a CIA-sponsored rebel group.

And this isn't even all of our greatest hits. There' simply not enough time for that.

Recently our occupation is become a steaming pile of crap without being reported in the media. For instance, just the other day our troops got into a firefight with the Syrian army.

#pt: #Syria state media agency SANA has confirmed reports of a U.S. airstrike & #NDF media has released this image, showing the remains of the checkpoint.

Reports say a U.S. patrol was stopped nearby, approx. 30mins before the strike occurred. pic.twitter.com/8EwNMCnQI8

— Charles Lister (@Charles_Lister) August 17, 2020

A skirmish between US-led coalition troops and Syrian pro-regime forces near the city of Qamishli left a Syrian soldier dead and two others wounded, Syria’s state-run SANA news agency said Monday morning.

The thing is this isn't even the problem. This is only the leading edge of the real problem.
That problem was created three years ago, when ISIS was collapsing, and we coerced our Kurdish-allies to race south and seize the oil fields of Deir Ezzor just hours before the Syrian army arrived.
We successfully managed to deny Damascus badly needed oil, and crippled their economy.
But there was a catch - Deir Ezzor isn't a Kurdish region. It's an Arab tribal region, and they are not happy at all.

The Kurds are not blameless. They have an extremely unpopular forceable conscription law, that even includes children.
This led to a huge wave of protests last year that the Kurds put down by simply shooting protesters. As you can imagine, that wasn't the end of the story.

About a month ago the protests started up again.

Pro-U.S. groups linked to the so-called Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) are suppressing protests in the northern provinces of Deir Ezzor and Hasaka and are besieging at least four villages, according to media and social networks.

Reports indicate that the villages of Al Shaji, Al Tayaneh, Al Hawaej and Ziban are under siege by SDF troops, who are even receiving armored vehicles from the U.S. military...
Protests have increased in the past two weeks, with reports of clashes between members of the Arab population and the SDF, with an unspecified number of casualties or damage, according to various sources.

Except this time the Sunni Arabs weren't messing around. This happened three days ago.

The Al-Baggara Tribe expelled fighters loyal to the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) from all their points in the village of Jadeed Baggara in the southeastern countryside of Deir Ezzor on Saturday.

According to Sputnik Arabic, the Al-Baggara Tribe members were able to expel the SDF-aligned fighters after armed clashes with them in southeastern Deir Ezzor...
The reporter explained that more than a thousand armed fighters from the Al-Baggara and Al-Akidat tribes from the towns of Bureihiyah, Dahlah and Al Busirah, east of Deir Ezzor, arrived to support the residents of the village of Jadeed Baggara and drive out the U.S.-backed forces.

The revolt has continued to spread.

The Albu’assi Tribe in the Al-Hasakah Governorate announced their complete readiness to join the Al-Akidat and Al-Baggarah tribes in their fight against the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and U.S.-led Coalition in the Deir Ezzor countryside.

Unlike last year, the U.S. and SDF would like to settle this peacefully. But they would first like the Arab tribes to please give them their guns back.

The Al-Baggara Tribe in eastern Syria refused a request from the U.S.-led Coalition to hand over the weapons that they confiscated yesterday from the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the Deir Ezzor countryside.