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Pat Buchanan: Is The Interventionists' Era Over For Good?Patrick J. BuchananOct. 15, 2019 |
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  President Donald Trump could have been more deft and diplomatic in how he engineered that immediate pullout from northeastern Syria.Yet that withdrawal was as inevitable as were its consequences. A thousand U.S. troops and their Kurdish allies were not going to dominate indefinitely the entire northeast quadrant of a country the size of Syria against the will of the Damascus regime and army. Had the U.S. refused to vacate Syrian lands on Turkey’s demand, a fight would be inevitable, whether with Turkey, Damascus or both. And this nation would neither support nor sustain a new war with Turks or Syrians. And whenever the Americans did leave, the Kurds, facing a far more powerful Turkey, were going to have to negotiate the best deal they could with Syria’s Bashar Assad. Read More 
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