RABAT, Morocco — Bipartisan revulsion at President Trump’s betrayal of the Syrian Kurds reflects that, even in an age when foreign policy has become a partisan football, there is still broad belief that allies matter and that the word of the United States should mean something.
The ramifications of the betrayal of the Kurds in favor of Turkey — an ally in name only, whose leader is perhaps the world’s friendliest toward al Qaeda and the Islamic State — will be seen for generations. But, while the outrage at Trump’s actions dominates discussion of foreign policy in Congress, the slow-motion betrayal of Morocco, a consistent ally, remains mooted.
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