President
Donald Trump’s decision to declare ISIS defeated and order a full
US withdrawal from Syria has been met with anger and disbelief by the
Washington establishment that hoped for regime change in Damascus.
Trump
declared victory over Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) on
Wednesday morning, as media reported that some 2,000 or so US troops
will leave Syria within 60 to 100 days. Though Trump had openly
spoken about wanting to leave Syria back in March, senior officials
in his administration have said that US forces would stay there
indefinitely.
[...]
Senator
Marco Rubio (R-Florida), known as a foreign policy hawk, also
disagreed with a withdrawal, calling it a “colossal” mistake and
a “grave error that's going to have significant repercussions in
the years and months to come.”
Rubio
echoed Lehrich’s assessment that the US withdrawal would turn Syria
over to Russia and Iran, adding that it might lead to another
conflict between Israel and the Iranian-backed Hezbollah, and lend
strength to the (hypothetical) argument by Russia and China that
Washington is an “unreliable ally.”
Another
foreign policy hawk, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) said
the pullout would be “a huge Obama-like mistake,” enabling the
revival of IS and putting the Kurds at risk.
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