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    Much Ado About 2,200 Troops in Syria

    The furious backlash to Trump’s decision to withdraw U.S. forces, which included James Mattis’s resignation as defense secretary, stands in stark contrast to its limited military impact.
    by Russell Berman Dec 21, 2018 4 minutes
    Source: Reuters via U.S. Army

    Rarely has the repositioning of 2,200 American troops out of a far-flung military theater caused such a ruckus.

    Donald Trump’s abrupt decision to withdraw U.S. ground forces from Syria left his hawkish allies in the Republican Party, along with much of the American foreign-policy establishment, positively aghast. It even prompted Trump’s secretary of defense, James Mattis, to resign on Thursday.

    “It has rattled the world,” declared a glum Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, the president’s foe turned bosom buddy, who joined two senior Democrats on Thursday to plead with the president to change his mind. “If it isn’t reversed,” Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, “it will haunt

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