Macron sways Trump on plan to create 'strong and lasting footprint' in Syria

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Macron sways Trump on plan to create 'strong and lasting footprint' in Syria

by Joel Gehrke

April 24, 2018 01:31 PM
 
President Trump said Tuesday he wants to leave U.S. forces in Syria long enough to thwart Iran’s ambition in the country, a goal he announced after a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron.

“So we want to come home, we'll be coming home, but ... we want to leave a strong and lasting footprint,” Trump said during a joint press conference at the White House. "And that was a very big part of our discussion."

Those remarks were an apparent departure from the plan provided by Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, who told lawmakers during a classified briefing that Trump plans to withdraw American forces from Syria as soon as possible. That sparked concern in the Senate, and among some U.S. allies, that Iranian forces allied with Syrian President Bashar Assad would seize strategically-significant territory in the country.

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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/macron-sways-trump-on-plan-to-create-strong-and-lasting-footprint-in-syria

[DB]

That never works.

[corbe]

   Wasn't it the French, with help from the Brits, that got us into Libya during obummer/hellarys regime?  What a CF that turned into. 

[Frank Cannon]

   Wasn't it the French, with help from the Brits, that got us into Libya during obummer/hellarys regime?  What a CF that turned into.

French also got Viet Nam started.