Trump’s National Security Team can make no cogent case to keep American troops in Syria as Trump announces unilateral retreat from Syria while announcing victory over Da’esh. With a Christmas Eve weekend US Federal Government shutdown looming, POTUS Trump shocked the foreign service community with a snap announcement that he was ordering the United States military to begin immediate preparations for withdrawing from what is an illegal occupation of sovereign Syrian territory.  Not that President Trump put his announcement in such terms.  There was no admission of the criminal occupationRead More