One of those was his decision just before Christmas to withdraw U.S. ground troops from the war in Syria. True, it has helped to push back the terror group Daesh, or ISIS, from Iraq and Syria. Given that sorry record, the real question about Trump’s Syria decision is why it took so long. The main role of the roughly 2,000 U.S. ground troops in Syria is to support Kurdish forces fighting Daesh. But the Kurds have their own agenda, which is to carve a new state out of parts of Turkey, Iraq, Syria and Iran.

Source: thestar January 03, 2019 20:03 UTC