Next Stop is Vietnam

I am reading James Fallows "Why do the Best Soldiers in the World Keep Losing?" in the Atlantic monthly and then in today's New York Times there is "Pentagon will send Trainers to Aid Some Syrian Rebels."  When will we learn that a fighting force without a functional political entity that fairly distributes, polices and adjudicates among its people is worthless?  Northeastern Syria has Kurdish areas that must unify with Iraq's Kurdistan government so that their fighting forces are useful.  Has the Obama Administration made the decision to promote this unification?  I hope so because otherwise we just keep losing by falling into decisions that lack a winning outcome.