Few lawmakers or TV pundits supported President Trump last month when he instructed the Pentagon to remove troops from Syria and halve their number in Afghanistan. But Trump’s decision earned him applause from an unlikely source: anti-war activists.

“If the decision is the right decision, does it matter who makes it?” said former Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, an anti-war advocate who sued then-President Barack Obama over the 2011 intervention in Libya.

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