It’s a bit rich to watch the bipartisan backlash to President Trump’s withdrawal of troops from northern Syria. Members of Congress from both parties have blasted the president for scaling back U.S. military involvement, even though they never authorized any involvement in the first place.

Still, there’s no disputing the fact that the situation in Syria is rapidly deteriorating. A week after Turkish warplanes started strafing Kurdish targets along the Syria-Turkey border, the situation on the ground has only become more disastrous. Hundreds of people have been killed, chaos has displaced nearly 150,000 others, Turkish proxies have committed grisly executions, and hundreds of Islamic State detainees and relatives have reportedly used the violence to escape captivity.