Trump has made it clear that he feels the US has been ensnared in too many foreign wars and he promised to change that (e.g., “I will never send our finest into battle unless necessary, and I mean absolutely necessary, and will only do so if we have a plan for victory with a capital V”.) He has reiterated this same theme over and over again. The American people voted for him as the 45th president.
You will have your opportunity to vote for someone else in one year’s time.
“I will never send our finest into battle unless necessary, and I mean absolutely necessary, and will only do so if we have a plan for victory with a capital V”.)”
1. We had already put “our finest” into battle in Syria, before Trump was elected. Our special forces were already there.
2. The he added more to our special forces helping the Kurds against ISIS and securing control of some of their own lands in Syria.
3. ISIS is not defeated in Syria. It is depleted greatly but it lives on. One of the areas where it lives in is in the remnants that became “refugees” in the Afrin area of north western Syria that Erdogan took over. Erdogan then used those ISIS remnants, formed in gangs, to purge Kurds from and around Afrin. Declaring victory is not the same as achieving it.
4. Obama did less of sending U.S. troops into the fight in Syria than Trump has. So much for promises.
5. Trump’s policy change is not one of not getting us into a fight. Trump’s policy is one of ignoring the fight we are already in, trying to suggest that fight is over just because we leave.
6. We do not have “victory with a capital V”. We are leaving an ally just as the shared victory we have with them is about to be snatched from them.
I have said more than once, I cannot see how I will vote for anyone but Trump in 2020. But this policy change will not be one of the reasons I do vote for him.
I think time will prove me right and Trump will live to regret. I did vote for Trump. I do not think he is G-d.