Time For The U.S. To Get Out Of Syria

Gordon Adams, Defense One: Time to Get Out of Syria

The national security 'blob' who warn departure would be a disaster are wrong.

President Donald Trump is right; it is time for the U.S. military to leave Syria.

Even though he appears to have no strategy for what comes next, his intention to put a limit on any long-term U.S. military commitment is the right way to go.

Trump’s off-the-cuff withdrawal statement from last week received the standard Washington push-back. Why did we go into Iraq if we don’t intend to see it through, some say? American lives will have been sacrificed for nothing, like in Iraq. We have to see it through and handle the next stage, as Gen. Joseph Votel of U.S. Central Command put it: “stabilizing these areas, consolidating our gains, getting people back into their homes, addressing the long-term issues of reconstruction and other things that have to be done.” Pulling troops from Syria, the critics say, unilaterally gives up leverage for a U.S. role in the next round of Syria diplomacy.

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WNU Editor: I have no doubts that the U.S. will be out of Syria one day .... I just do not know when, or what will be the cost.