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Cultivating alliances puts America first

By Washington Examiner
Published October 12, 2019 4:00am ET
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Cultivating alliances puts America first
A fighter from the Syrian Democratic Forces, SDF, stands guard inside a post where U.S. troops were based, in Tal Abyad town, at the Syrian-Turkish border, Syria, Monday, Oct. 7, 2019. The SDF, a U.S.-backed Kurdish-led force accused Washington Monday of failing to abide by its commitments by withdrawing from northeast Syria ahead of a Turkish invasion that the Kurds say will overturn five years of achievements in the battle against the Islamic State group. | (AP Photo)

The United States is not an empire. Yet we are, to employ an overused term, the leaders of the free world. Our recent abandonment of the Kurds betrays our leadership role.

Freedom and authoritarianism are pitched against each other in an endless struggle. Since 1941, the U.S. has led the forces of freedom.

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