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    Syria: Does sudden Trump move undermine US reliability?

    Oct 08, 2019 5 minutes

    President Donald Trump’s surprise Sunday night decision to pull U.S. troops from northern Syrian territory and acquiesce to a Turkish offensive there set off alarms in Washington that America was abandoning its Kurdish allies – and opening the door to an ISIS comeback.

    It could also be seen as Trump being Trump.

    The president has long made clear his aim to get the United States fully and finally out of its long Middle East wars. Any move to remove U.S. troops from potential harm’s way fits with his end goal.

    Moreover, he has also displayed a readiness to make foreign policy decisions off-the-cuff and based on his own gut instincts – even if against the advice of his national security circle, as seems to be the case here.

    But the withdrawal – oddly announced in a late

    Diverging interests“Ridiculous endless wars”Gift to adversaries

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