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The Case for Pulling Out of Syria
President Trump’s orders to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria has garnered support from both the left and right.Gil Barndollar director of Middle East Studies at the Center for the National Interest and former infantry officer in the United States Marine Corp lays out his case for the withdrawal. Then Glenn Greenwald, co-founding editor of The Intercept, former constitutional law and civil rights litigator and Guardian columnist, does the same from a left perspective.