Withdrawal From Syria Is Right, but We Mustn’t Abandon Kurds

A general view shows a Syrian flag flying in a destroyed street in Jobar in Eastern Ghouta on April 2, 2018. LOUAI BESHARA/AFP/Getty Images

Commentary

President Donald Trump recently decided to withdraw all U.S. military presence from the Syrian theater of operations. This has been reported by the media to have been both abrupt and widely criticized, neither of which is particularly true.