The American handshake needs to mean something. When we ask a foreign force to fight and die with us — as we did with the Syrian Kurds in the fight against ISIS — our partners need to know that we will recognize their sacrifice and stand by them.
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If we are to expect allies and partners to be willing to partner with us now and in the future, they need to be able to trust us. Secretary Mattis and other officials felt strongly enough about this very issue that they resigned over it.
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This is a bipartisan issue: in February, myself and a group of Senators and Representatives wrote to the President requesting the U.S. maintain a small, stabilizing force in Syria, together with coalition partners and allies.
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We did so because we believed that a U.S. commitment is worth the stability it provides against ISIS resurgence. And in fact, the President sent us back a note saying he agreed with us and publicly announced he would keep a few hundred troops in Syria.
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I do not know what changed, but I urge him to revisit his decision to pull U.S. troops out of northern Syria and provide clear guidance on the U.S. strategy in Syria.
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Yes. The Trump administration's erratic decision-making process in itself should disqualify this man from the presidency. He endangers the world.
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The real erratic decision making was entering Syria in the first place!
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