Trump says the U.S. 'should have nothing to do with' Syria. He's right.

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

70% : Trump, whose maximum-pressure policy on Iran was in full swing at the time, was amenable to the argument.
61% : With Trump re-entering the White House in about six weeks, he gets a second bite of the apple.
43% : Instead, Trump should follow his own advice.
41% : This isn't the first time Trump has expressed his desire to minimize American involvement in Syria.
32% : Nearly a year later, in October 2019, Trump declared his intention to leave yet again.
32% : About two weeks after declaring his intention to bring U.S. forces home, Trump reversed course yet again after talking with Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and retired Gen. Jack Keane.
30% : When Trump vacated the White House in January 2021, about 900 U.S. troops were still on the ground.
25% : Trump, however, is right to be extremely skeptical about America's capacity to change things in Syria.
24% : While it's true that Trump took military action against the Syrian government in 2017 and 2018 after the Assad regime used chemical weapons against its own people, it's also true that Trump wanted to pull U.S. troops out of the country on multiple occasions.
24% : In December 2018, over the objections of his national security advisers, Trump announced on social media that Washington was finally getting out because the job of destroying the Islamic State's territorial caliphate was complete.

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