“The President Is Reconsidering”: Syria Pullout On Thin Ice After Lunch With Lindsey Graham…(No Trump! Get Us Out!)
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
Sun, 12/30/2018
President Trump is “reconsidering” his strategy to pull US forces out of Syria following an “eye-opening trip to Iraq” the day after Christmas, Bloomberg reports.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) who sits on the Senate Armed Forces Committee – a harsh critic of Trump’s announced pullout, said earlier Sunday that he would try to change Trump’s mind during a private lunch since the Islamic state isn’t quite defeated in the region as the President had previously stated.
“I feel better about Syria than I felt before I had lunch,” said Graham after he left the White House. “I think the president is taking this really seriously, and the trip to Iraq was well timed.” Trump has apparently devised a strategy with his generals in the field that “makes sense” according to the Senator.
On Sunday morning, Graham told CNN’s “State of the Union” that Trump had spoken with General Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
“I got a call from General Dunford,” said Graham. “The president is reconsidering how we do this.”
The White House didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment on whether Trump is considering reversing the decision, announced by tweet earlier this month, to pull U.S. troops from Syria. That move, which came against the advice of the president’s top national security advisers, triggered the resignation of Defense Secretary Jim Mattis.
Trump has already has backed away from the notion of an immediate withdrawal, saying a week ago that the pullout of U.S. troops from the area would be “slow & highly coordinated.” -Bloomberg
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