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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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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