United State’s Withdrawal from Syria
President Trump announced that the United States forces would withdraw entirely from the conflict in Syria. The congress, as well as the presidential candidates in the U.S., are debating over Trump1s decision to withdraw from Syria hence allowing Turkey to battle the Syrian Kurds. It is not yet apparent that the U.S. is leaving Syria. The lawmakers in the U.S. voted 354-60 in condemnation of the withdrawal within a day after the Democratic candidates clashed over the bloodshed that was being evidenced in Syria(Jenkins, 2019). Despite the many criticisms, President Trump’s decision to withdraw from the conflict is for the benefit of the nation.
President Trump made the right choice to extract the United States army from Syria. The American army does not have any strategic reason for being in Syria. If the army stayed any longer in Syria, then it would be sucked even dipper ad if they tried to impose any form of peace in the country, then they would have been attacked from all sides (Jenkins, 2019). The U.S. Army should leave Syria just the same way it should exit Afghanistan, Iraq, the Gulf as well as Saudi Arabia. While the latest decisions by President Trump are not yet very clear, that he has already enraged moderate interventionists. But because there is no excellent time to intervene in the problems of other nations, then the same case is that there is really the best time to stop. If there is any way that the U.S. Army could use in bringing concord and peace to the north of Syria, it must be different, but unfortunately, there is no other way. No other event in the current history of the middle east has equaled the horror that is being unleashed by the United State’s “war of 9/11”.
A degree of strategic clarity was possible when the outside world had united in declaring a war against the Islamic State. Isis has now been bombed down into pieces while the older feuds have resurfaced. President Trump has had a lot and his moderation of the Kurds as well as his license to Turks so that they can attack Syria must rank higher in the annals of the diplomacy. American foreign policy has been an angel of disaster since the 19th century. Both ancient and modern cities we destroyed, as well as the religious faiths, were weaponized and polarized (O’conner, 2019). A lot of people have died, and a lot of money as well has been wasted in the conflict. If President Trump succeeds in ending this self-defeating cycle, then he deserves credit.
Two of the current presidents of the United States of America, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump, came into office with a firm favor of withdrawing their troops from the region. The United State’s military-industrial complex seemed to be so powerful that they could not propose the withdrawal of the army from Syria (Petti, 2019). Ever since Trump got into office, he has been specifically emphatic about the removal of the army from the region. His aggressive rhetoric, as well as unpredictability, has made him achieve his intentions. Trump has always played soft and hard in Iran, he attempted to leave Afghanistan although not dared to do so, and now he has managed to leave Kurds hence protecting the interest of the people of the United States of America.
The Kurds have as well been very important allies for the United States of America, or perhaps some of the Kurds are. The Kurds have been an important ally to America in Syria towards the fight with the Islamic state in the region (Petti, 2019). The problem with the U.S is now to balance between the two problems on whether it will continue supporting the Kurds in the war or it will simply withdraw for the benefit of the people. The Turks, of the other hand, are a longtime NATO ally that the U.S. relies on and has as well relied on for a very long period. The U.S. is still facing another problem on whether it should exist, and the relationship will be destroyed, or it should simply exit for the interest of its citizens.
References
Jenkins, S. (2019, October 14). Trump is right to take troops out of Syria. Now they must leave Iraq and Afghanistan | Simon Jenkins. Retrieved from https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/14/trump-troops-syria-leave-iraq-afghanistan-us
O’conner, T. (2019, October 24). U.S. sudden Syria exit leaves angry Iraqi Kurds looking to Iran, “It’s all about oil, thicker than innocent blood”. Retrieved from https://www.newsweek.com/us-exit-syria-iraq-kurds-iran-1467608
Petti, M. (2019, October 16). Is Trump Really Pulling Out of Syria? Retrieved from https://nationalinterest.org/blog/middle-east-watch/trump-really-pulling-out-syria-88751