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Michael Brendan Dougherty
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National Review
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December 21, 2018
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https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/12/trump-syria-withdrawal-intervention-questionable/
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If Russia’s prestige has been enhanced in the Middle East, perhaps it is not so much the fecklessness of American intervention and the resolution of Putin, but that Russia simply had the more viable strategy. Russia has intervened on behalf of traditional state actors, Iran and Syria. The United States, since the Arab Spring, has fitfully allied itself with demotic and even revolutionary Sunni movements. The relationships of these movements to Sunni terrorist movements such as Al Nusra and ISIS has been rather fluid.
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This item argues for the position United States is right to withdraw its troops on the topic Syrian civil war.
