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Does Trump's decision to pull US troops out of war-torn Syria make sense?

The forever war in the Middle East is far from over

Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin
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John Feffer | FPIF
Donald Trump wants to pull US troops out of Syria as quickly as possible.

Well, it’s Wednesday, so that’s what the president wants now. Tomorrow, who knows, maybe he’ll insist that Syria pay for the pullout. Maybe Trump will decide to hold a summit with Bashar al-Assad after deciding that the Syrian leader’s not such a bad guy after all, since he also doesn’t like the Islamic State and owes his position to Russian support. Maybe Trump will team up with Turkey to build a wall around Syria because “if we stop them over there, we won’t fight them over here.”

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