Trump Just Messed Up the One Thing He Did Better Than Obama
His capricious decision to withdraw troops from Syria will create havoc.
The Trump administration has unexpectedly decided to rapidly withdraw U.S. forces from Syria, where they have been fighting . This decision, which demonstrates that the president’s National Security Strategy does not govern his policies, will have deleterious effects across the strategic waterfront: throwing Syria policy into chaos; rewarding Iranian regional destabilization and Russian intervention; alarming Kurdish forces and American allies fighting in the region, as well as countries to which jihadists might return; and calling into
