The Trump administration’s decision in October 2019 to withdraw a small group of troops from the Kurdish-controlled region from the Syrian-Turkish border raised a rare condemnation of active and retired US soldiers, who were alarmed by the United States giving up one of its most reliable allies in the Middle East. There is no more complicated place than geopolitics in the Levant, and reasonable observers cannot disagree over whether a sudden withdrawal of the administration is truly a \u201cbetrayal\u201d of stateless Kurds. But Trump’s message was a difficult mistake: Going forward, reciprocity is not guaranteed for groups allied to the United States that provide military or intelligence assistance to U.S. forces stationed abroad.<\/p>\n
Within days of the withdrawal, Turkish forces invaded the lands, expelled Kurdish forces and civilians, and left an uncertain number of casualties in their wake. The United States is retreating – Suddenly the American withdrawal from northern Syria has led to a round of accusation of America’s growing tendency to isolationism. Indeed, the decades-old fear of the Trump administration’s alleged fear has been laid in the ashes of coalition-ruled Iraq. Since the dark days of this insurgency, as China and other developing countries<\/a> have flexed their economic and strategic muscles, US policymakers have predicted the end of American moral and military superiority.<\/p>\n