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    Commentary: Will Trump's pulling of troops from Syria prove to be a historic blunder?

    by Ivo Daalder, Chicago Tribune Dec 21, 2018 3 minutes

    Against the advice of his entire national security team, President Donald Trump has ordered the full withdrawal of 2,000 U.S. ground troops from Syria.

    The decision, as usual, was announced on Twitter. "We have defeated ISIS in Syria, my only reason for being there during the Trump Presidency," Trump tweeted Wednesday. But that is a judgment few in his administration actually shared. Only days earlier, Trump's top military adviser, Gen. Joseph Dunford, declared: "We still have a long way to

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