Trump is right to withdraw US troops from Syria

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Author(s) Trevor Timm
Source The Guardian
Date December 21, 2018
URL https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/21/trump-syria-withdrawal-us-troops
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Quotes-start.png Does anyone care that many legal experts – regardless of how evil Assad or Isis was and is – think sending troops into Syria was illegal, given that Congress never debated or approved sending troops there? Should we fight in Syria forever, just because Russia also thinks we should leave? What percentage of the American public even knew to begin with over 2,000 troops have been on the ground in Syria occupying a third of the country for years? Quotes-end.png


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This item argues for the position United States is right to withdraw its troops on the topic Syrian civil war.