From the presumption that Trump must be wrong, fallacious inferences follow. Yes, Trump is a horrible President on too many levels to enumerate. But remember what they say about a stopped clock? The US has no business having troops in Syria. If Trump is in fact intent on withdrawing them: good for him. [ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT NARRATIVE VOICE -- he is not in fact intent on withdrawing them.] If Mattis resigned over that: Mattis was in the wrong, and this is so EVEN IF it is true, as some reporting has it, that Mattis has been a check on some of Trump's worst impulses on other occasions. This is John Glaser, of CATO, on the subject: https://www.cato.org/blog/trump-right-withdraw-syria ------------- The latest news on this front, of course, is that the Trump administration wasn't serious. The troops are staying in Syria after all. It was all a diversion, presumably a way of drawing attention away at least for a brief spell from the new House of Representatives, the Mu...
