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Trump’s rationale for withdrawing from Syria is deceptive and strategically illiterate

By Tom Rogan

Published April 5, 2018 10:00am ET

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The White House statement on Wednesday justifying a near-term withdrawal of U.S. military forces from Syria is deceptive and strategically illiterate.

For a start, it claims that ISIS is near defeat and implies that this objective has always been the sole focus of the Trump administration’s military deployment in Syria. That is simply untrue.

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