When Mitt Romney penned an op-ed attack on President Trump’s character, that critique began not surprisingly with the fallout surrounding the president’s recent decision to withdraw troops from Syria and Afghanistan.

“The Trump presidency made a deep descent in December,” the incoming senator from Utah lamented in his op-ed. “The departures of Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly, the appointment of senior persons of lesser experience, the abandonment of allies who fight beside us, and the president’s thoughtless claim that America has long been a ‘sucker’ in world affairs all defined his presidency down.”