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So the thing is, I actually support Trump pulling the emergency brakes on our involvement in the Syria conflict because Mattis/Bolton/etc have been allowed to escalate pretty much without oversight which is a really big problem

but two things:

1) Trump HIRED Mattis and Bolton and it's not like we didn't know what their positions were on this. Especially Bolton who is a fucking maniac and an inexcusably terrible hire from the start, but he's ESPECIALLY an inexcusably terrible hire if you think pulling out of Syria today was a good idea. Hiring him in the first place was what exacerbated this mess. Trump made this mess and it's clear that he has no real foreign policy goal here aside from "hire people who hated Obama a lot and then ???" because everything he's doing is at odds with each other, he just got scared that Erdogan threw a hissy fit and he's backing down because so much for being a tough alpha male (typically it would actually be good that he's listening to someone for a change but he just legitimized Erdogan, Assad, AND Putin in one fell swoop)

2) Trump did this with absolutely zero communication or planning or conferring with anyone else or... anything. I want to get out of Syria but I don't want to do it stupidly and rashly which is the only way Trump knows how to do anything