Trump's withdrawal from Syria may be a disaster . . . for Iran and Turkey

February 9, 2020 By Andrea Widburg

In December 2018, Trump ordered the withdrawal of American troops from Syria, where they’d been hard at work destroying the last military vestiges of ISIS, the one-time “JV team” that ignited a reign of terror across Iraq and Syria. The Democrat party and its lapdog media promised us that our Kurdish allies would be slaughtered and we’d be on the verge of yet another one of the many Trump initiated World Wars.

None of that happened, but it appears that two regimes hostile to American interests are at each other’s throats. And of course, it’s always preferable when one’s enemies turn their aggression towards each other.

The New York Times´ reporting from 2018 about Trump’s planned withdrawal is a good example of the concern the Democrats and the foreign policy establishment had that Trump would get America into war by getting America out of war:

In overruling his generals and civilian advisers, Mr. 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............ 

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and other top national security officials argued that a withdrawal would, essentially, surrender Western influence in Syria to Russia and Iran. The Trump administration’s national security policy calls for challenging both countries, which are the chief benefactors of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria and have provided him with years of financial and military support.

To date, World War III (or IV or IV or VI) has not started. What has started,  however, is an increase in hostilities between Iran (America’s open enemy since 1979) and Turkey (an increasingly overt enemy to America as Erdogan has entrenched his permanent Islamist power structure).........To Read More.....

My Take - It's clear Trump understands the Bretton Woods era is over.  No more wasting enormous sums of money and untold numbers of young American's lives in "no end in sight" wars for the benefit of other nations to the detriment of America.   Our lives, our money, their benefits.  That's over!