Mattis Walks After Trump’s Syria Pullout Shreds the Pentagon
The Syria withdrawal fight hit full-force as James Mattis resigned, saying the president deserved a defense secretary whose views were better aligned with his own. The resignation followed Trump’s abrupt decision to pull U.S. forces out of Syria, a move that stunned allies and enraged national-security hawks. By the end of the day, the episode looked less like a policy shift than a break-glass moment inside Trump’s own cabinet.
The Syria withdrawal fight hit full-force as James Mattis resigned, saying the president deserved a defense secretary whose views were better aligned with his own. The resignation followed Trump’s abrupt decision to pull U.S. forces out of Syria, a move that stunned allies and enraged national-security hawks. By the end of the day, the episode looked less like a policy shift than a break-glass moment inside Trump’s …
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