Last week, Trump revealed that the United State would soon withdraw from Syria. However, there was no confirmation from the president's administration or the Pentagon. On Tuesday, Trump reiterated his stance, adding that these plans will be discussed with coalitions' allies and countries of the region.
Syria's Envoy to the United Nations Bashar Jaafari said that Damascus had not received any official information on Trump's plans to pull out US forces from the country.
Political commentator and historian Dan Lazare said the president's own shortcomings explained why he lacked confidence to override and master the US military bureaucracy.
“Trump lacks any capacity for strategic thinking whatsoever,” Lazare said. “He has no concept of the forces that drew the United States into Syria in the first place and are now pressuring it to stay.”
Lazare said he believed that Trump would be happy to pull out of Syria and leave it to Russian President Vladimir Putin and Syrian President Bashar Assad to mop up what was left of al-Qaeda and the Islamic State terror group (outlawed in Russia).
However, “For all his bluster, Trump is crippled by his own weakness… He's a minority president, someone who lost the popular election by nearly three million votes and slipped into office only by virtue of a constitutional fluke,” he said.
Washington's two key allies, Israel and Saudi Arabia, wanted Assad out for years, as did the long-established war hawks in the…
