James Bovard, USA Today: Donald Trump is reckless on Syria. It's his most dangerous foreign policy folly.
Trump said Obama's 'horrendous leadership' on Syria could start World War III. He's made things even worse.
Last year on the campaign trail, crowds roared when Donald Trump denounced his opponent as "trigger-happy" Hillary. But President Trump is rapidly incarnating the vice he condemned. Nowhere is this more evident than in Syria, where Trump’s recklessness risks dragging America into a major war.
U.S. policy toward Syria has been a tangle of absurdities since 2012. President Obama promised 16 times that he would never put U.S. "boots on the ground" in the four-sided Syrian civil war. He quietly abandoned that pledge and, starting in 2014, launched more more than 5,000 airstrikes that dropped more than 15,000 bombs on terrorist groups in Syria.
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Commentaries On Concerns That President Trump Will Drag The U.S. Into A Major Middle Eastern War
Trump Is Tripping Over Iran and Russia's Red Lines in Syria -- Jonathan Spyer, Foreign Policy
Critics Say US Is 'Sleepwalking' Into Wider Role in Syria -- Helene Cooper, New York Times
US risks being dragged into regional war with Iran in Syria -- Barbara Starr, CNN
The Iran-US Drone War in Syria Could Quickly Spin Out of Control -- Juan Cole, The Nation
Is the Middle East on the brink of another war? -- Charis Chang, NEWS.com.au
Are We in a Syrian Missile Crisis? -- Carl Skutsch, Rolling Stone
What Is the United States Doing in Syria These Days? -- Jen Kirby, NYMag
What's Trump's Syria Plan Once ISIS Is Defeated? -- Frederic C. Hof, Newsweek
The geopolitics behind race for eastern Syria -- Mona Alami, Al-Monitor
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Powers compete for position in post-ISIS Syria -- Charles Krauthammer, Philly.com
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