President Trump Orders Full Withdrawal Of 2,000 US Troops From Syria

President Trump Orders Full Withdrawal Of 2,000 US Troops From Syria

President Trump has ordered the withdrawal of 2,000 American troops
from Syria, bringing a sudden end to a military campaign that largely
vanquished the Islamic State but ceding a strategically vital country to
Russia and Iran.

In overruling his generals and civilian advisers, Trump fulfilled his
frequently expressed desire to bring home American forces from a messy
foreign entanglement. But his decision, conveyed via Twitter on
Wednesday, plunges the administration’s Middle East strategy into
disarray, rattling allies like Britain and Israel and forsaking Syria’s
ethnic Kurds, who have been faithful partners in fighting the Islamic
State.  

The abrupt, chaotic nature of the move and the opposition it
immediately provoked on Capitol Hill and beyond raised questions about
how Trump will follow through with the full withdrawal. Even after the
president’s announcement, officials said, the Pentagon and State
Department continued to try to talk him out of it.  

“We have won against ISIS. Our boys, our young women, our men they’re
all coming back, and they’re coming back now. We won, and that’s the
way we want it, and that’s the way they want it,”Mr. Trump declared in a
video posted Wednesday evening on Twitter.